Lot Essay
C.M.G. London Gazette 27.6.1919.
Mention in Despatches London Gazette 1.1.1917.
Rear-Admiral Harold Rodham, C.M.G., was born in 1873 and educated at Plymouth Grammar School prior to entering the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in January 1890. Subsequently enjoying a spate of seagoing appointments and steady advancement to Fleet Paymaster by August 1911, he joined the Battle Cruiser H.M.S. Princess Royal in December of the following year and was present in her at the Battles of Heligoland Bight on 28.8.1914, Dogger Bank on 24.1.1915 and Jutland on 31.5.1916. In the latter engagement the Princess Royal received several hits and sustained nearly 100 casualties, two shells crippling her Fire Control within ten minutes of action being taken against her, and another piercing her starboard side aft and wrecking the after Engine Room casings before exploding on the port side. Rodham was Mentioned in Despatches. Advanced to Paymaster Commander in July 1917, he returned ashore to take up a post at the R.N. Depot at Immingham, but in July 1919 he joined the Cruiser H.M.S. Delhi, Flagship of Admiral Sir Walter Cowan in the Baltic. Latterly he was based at Dartford College and the Shore Establishment Pembroke, gaining advancement to Paymaster Captain in June 1923 and to Rear-Admiral in July 1928. Rodham died in December 1947.
Mention in Despatches London Gazette 1.1.1917.
Rear-Admiral Harold Rodham, C.M.G., was born in 1873 and educated at Plymouth Grammar School prior to entering the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in January 1890. Subsequently enjoying a spate of seagoing appointments and steady advancement to Fleet Paymaster by August 1911, he joined the Battle Cruiser H.M.S. Princess Royal in December of the following year and was present in her at the Battles of Heligoland Bight on 28.8.1914, Dogger Bank on 24.1.1915 and Jutland on 31.5.1916. In the latter engagement the Princess Royal received several hits and sustained nearly 100 casualties, two shells crippling her Fire Control within ten minutes of action being taken against her, and another piercing her starboard side aft and wrecking the after Engine Room casings before exploding on the port side. Rodham was Mentioned in Despatches. Advanced to Paymaster Commander in July 1917, he returned ashore to take up a post at the R.N. Depot at Immingham, but in July 1919 he joined the Cruiser H.M.S. Delhi, Flagship of Admiral Sir Walter Cowan in the Baltic. Latterly he was based at Dartford College and the Shore Establishment Pembroke, gaining advancement to Paymaster Captain in June 1923 and to Rear-Admiral in July 1928. Rodham died in December 1947.