Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1904 - 1905 - 1906

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Admiral Sir Leopold Heath - aged 87/88

Major General Frederick Crofton Heath-Caldwell - aged 46/47

Constance Mary H. Heath-Caldwell - aged 36/37

Cuthbert Helsham Heath- Caldwell - aged  15/16

Martin Frederick Heath-Caldwell - aged 11/12

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Thursday 5 January 1905
St.James's Gazette

The Years' Centenarians.
Sir, In the list of centenarians given in your issue of Monday the name of Miss Julia Moore, of Mayfair, niece of the illustrious Sir John Moore of Corunna fame, appears to have been omitted. I seem to recollect that this lady's completion of 100 years of life in the early part of last year was referred to at the time in your columns. She passed away only a few months ago.
R.H. Fellows

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Wednesday 11 January 1905
The Scotsman
Brevet
The undermentioned Lieutenant-Colonels to be Colonels: -  - -F. C. Heath, Royal Engineers: - - -

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Saturday 14 January 1905
Army and Navy Gazette

Brevet - Lt.Cols to be Cols. - - F.C. Heath, R.E., (Jan. 8).

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Monday 23 January 1905
The Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld)

Local Authorities' Relief Fund
List of subscribers (London) to the Brilliant Relief Fund, making a total of £100, cheque for which amount was received through Messrs Mccallum and Coy, Charters Towers.

A. Durant Esq. £21.0.0
Messrs A.Durant and Co. £ 10.10.0
Admiral Sir Leopold G. Heath K.C.B. £5.0.0
continues . . .

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Tuesday 21 February 1905
London Evening Standard

Colonel F.C. Heath, Royal Engineers, has been appointed temporarily Chief Engineer of the London District.

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Thursday 17 May 1906   ??
Globe

Col. F.C. Heath R.E., has been appointed an Assistant-Adjutant-General at headquarters.

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Friday 5 June 1905
Surrey Mirror

For Sale
A handsome mottled chestnut ride and drive horse; good  mouth and good temper, good manners, good - - and sound, passes motors; age 5. height 16½; price 60 guineas - Apply Coachman, Anstie Grange, Holmwood, Surrey
 

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Homeward Mail from India, China and East 

Monday 12 June 1905

The Indian Earthquake Relief Fund.

The following is the eighth list of the subscriptions received by Messrs Henry S King and Co. on behalf of the Viceroy's Fund:-

- - -Miss Marsh-Caldwell £2.0.0.

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Thursday 22 June 1905
Brighton Gazette
Wanted, Carter (married), who understands binders, and has a good character; good horses, good cottage close to station. - Apply to Bailiff, Anstie Grange, Holmwood.

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Saturday 15 July 1905
Army and Navy Gazette

Cols. F.C. Heath, H.M. Lake, J.I. Irvine and G. Hildebrand, Brevet Lieut.-Col. Sir Percy Girouard and Major J.E. Edmonds have been elected members of the committee of the R.E. Institute.

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Monday 7 August 1905
Sheffield Daily Telegraph

Engineers at Chatham
For the first time, the 1st West York Royal Engineers are visiting Chatham, the home of their branch of the army, although they have had detachments there before.  - - - -

The corps, under the command of Colonel E. S. Tozer, left Sheffield Midland Railway Station 496 strong, exclusive of the detachment in charge of Capt. R. B. Heywood which went in advance, to prepare the camp.  - - - -

The corps departed from the city in a special train ten minutes past nine in the morning, travelling via Leicester, Bedford, Kentish Town, and Herne Hill, proceeding thence to New Brompton by the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway. They are encamped with three other volunteer corps, the lst Sussex, Flintshire, and Cheshire, and for the week are attached to the regulars, with whom they will work in conjunction, under the command of Colonel F. C. Heath, Instructor of Fortifications. 

The instruction will include one branch of work which the corps has never attempted, before, pontooning across a river, the Medway, over which the men will have to row to reach their work. Other training will comprise barrel-pier bridge construction, tressel and frame bridging, and the use of various explosives for purposes of demolition

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Saturday 18 November 1905
Staffordshire Advertiser

Lichfield Diocesan Church Extension Fund
Quinquennial Appeal (1906-10) by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. First list of donors and subscribers - - - The Misses Marsh-Caldwell, Linley Wood, Talke - - -

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Saturday 25 November 1905
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
Congratulations are due to Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath, of Anstie Grange, who was born on November 18th, 1817, and who therefore completed on Saturday last his 88th year. 

Sir Leopold entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman at the age of 14, and in his long life has seen much active service. He was present at the attack on Lagos in 1851, and was the bombardment of  Sebastopol in 1854, and was commander of the naval forces in the Abyssinian war, in connection with which latter service he received the thanks of Parliament and was made K.C.B., besides being appointed adie-de-camp to Queen Victoria. Sir Leopold is a Knight of the Legion of Honour, and of the Mejidie and possesses the Crimean, Turkish and Abyssian medals.

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Friday 15 December 1905
The Sydney Morning Herald
HMS Powerful in Sydney

The New Flagship
H.M.S. Powerful Due this Morning - With Vice-Admiral Fawkes on board. An interesting Voyage. The Prince and Princess of Wales met on the way.

At high water, between 9 and 10 o'clock this morning H.M.S.Powerful, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Fawkes (the new Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Section) will enter Sydney Heads, thus completing her voyage from Portsmouth, and will proceed to the buoy prepared for her in Farm Cove.

The Powerful is a first-class protected cruiser of 14,200 tons displacement - the largest warship ever appointed to this station - and was built at a cost of £741,870. Like the Euryalus, which, by the way, is an armoured cruiser, she has four funnels and two masts, and is described as a majestic and formidable-looking vessel. The new flagship was launched at Barrow in the year 1895, but was not completed until three years later. The Powerful is 500 ft. in length, with a beam of 71ft, her draught being 29ft. Her engines are capable of indicating 15,000 horse power, and her speed is officially given as 22.1 knots.

The Powerful, though 2200 tons more displacement than H.M.S. Euryalus, which vessel she succeeds, has only armour covering her deck, varying in thickness from three to six inches, and armour protecting her gun positions of six inches, while the late flagship has an armour belt extending from stem to stern, six inches thick amidships of Krupp steel - - -

The Departure from Portsmouth
The Powerful was commissioned for the Australian station at Portsmouth Dockyard on October 3 last, the officers and men being drawn from Chatham, Plymouth, and the Naval Barracks at Porstmouth. By 5 o'clock on the afternoon of that day 40 officers and 900 men had taken up their quarters on the ship, and next morning 1800 tons of coal was shipped.

On the following Monday the Powerful was taken for her commissioning trial, with very successful results, and the Powerful then returned to the south railway jetty to complete arrangements for the voyage to the Antipodes. During this time the vessel was crowded with visitors, for the Powerful is a ship with a name and distinguished herself in South Africa.

At 9 o'clock on the morning of October 17 the Powerful took her departure, and shaped a course for Spithead, where the vessel was swung for the adjustment of her compasses. At 3 p.m. she passed the Warner Light, and proceeded down Channel at 13 knots. After a calm and cool passage, the flagship arrived at Gibraltar just as H.M.S. Cambrian (the new second-class cruiser appointed to the Australian station, and now coming down the Queensland coast on her way to Sydney) was steaming out of port on the other side.

The Powerful stayed a few hours, and then shaped a course for Malta, proceeding this time at 15 knots.

After another uneventful passage, the flagship arrived at Malta, making fast in Bright Bay, just underneath the Naval Hospital. Here over 200 men brought out for the Mediterranean fleet disembarked, and the vessel left for Port Said at 9 p.m., amidst brilliant illuminations, for the torpedo boat flotilla were attacking the harbour, and all the searchlights on the island were brought into play.

Those on the Powerful were not fortunate enough to see the attack, for at 15 knots the land soon drops astern and out of sight.

Entertaining Royalty
Just before the Powerful reached the anchorage at Port Said, the Renown, flying the Royal Standard, the Lancaster and Suffolk, and Surprise, of the Mediterranean fleet, were seen at anchor. As our new flagship passed the Renown, the guard presented arms and a royal salute was fired. Having obtained pratique, leave was given to the officers; and the ship's company prepared to receive the Prince and Princess of Wales, who were entertained at dinner by Vice-Admiral Fawkes.

At 8 o'clock the Royal visitors arrived in a steam pinnace, the Prince wearing naval undress mess dress, and the Princess, with her lady-in-waiting, both in white. The Princess looked much younger than one would expect, and seemed in high spirits. They left the ship at about 11.30 p.m., and returned to the Renown. At 6 o'clock the next morning the Renown got under weigh, and entered the Canal, the Powerful following about an hour later. Fourteen hours after leaving Port Said the Powerful anchored at Suez.

At Suez the Powerful stayed four days, meeting her sister ship the Terrible. She was gorgeous with her beautiful white side and her yellow funnels, while the Powerful was "all grey." No ship had ever before taken 2,500 tons of coal at Suez at one time, buy the task was accomplished by the new flagship. Teams from the Powerful played the local branch of the Eastern Telegraph Company at football and cricket, being beaten in the first, and winning in the second.

On the Way to Ceylon
On November 3 the Powerful left on the 3,400 miles run to Trincomali, for she did not call at Aden, and steamed just over 13 knots. The weather was calm and very few ships were passed. The usual drills and exercises went on, and the monotonous changing and mustering of the watch came round every four hours. Very hot weather was experienced in the Red Sea, so large canvas baths were rigged up on the upper deck - one for the men and another for the officers - which were filled with sea water from the fire main

When the ship got clear of the Gulf of Aden, and into the Indian Ocean proper, the weather became cooler, and on two or three occasions rain fell.
After 12 days at sea, the Powerful arrived off the south-east of the island of Ceylon, and the doctor reporting that a yeoman of signals, who was coming out for H.M.S. Pioneer, and who had been ill for some days, had had a turn for the worse, the Admiral decided to alter the course, and make for Colombo. This was welcome news, for Colombo is infinitely preferable to Trincomali. The next morning the flagship entered the harbour at Colombo at 8 o'clock, and made fast to buoys. The Powerful coaled here, taking in another 3,500 tons, and remained about a week. Cricket and football matches were arranged, and a very pleasant week was spend.

Exchanging Command
The Powerful reached Fremantle at 4 o'clock on the afternoon, Friday, December 1. and there met the homeward-bound Euryalus, which had for several days been awaiting her arrival. Admiral Sir Arthur D. Fanshawe transferred the command of the Australian station to Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes, and the Euryalus, on the following day, resumed her voyage to Plymouth, via Colombo and ports.
The new flagship remained in the Western Australian port until the 7th instand, when she sailed for Sydney direct.

Our New Admiral
Sir Wilmot Hawkesforth Fawkes has once previously commanded a naval squadron. He is 58 years of age, and joined the navy in 1860. He attained the rank of commander in 1880, and from 1884 to 1886 he commanded the Roya Yacht Osborne. - - -

The Flag Captain
Captain Lionel Halsey, who is described as a man with a great future before him, has not been to Australia before. He entered the navy as a cadet on January15 885, and received his commission as a sub-lieutenant on July 14, 1891. - -

Other Officers of the Powerful
Mr.Grenville A. Miller, the new Admiral's secretary, has been to Australia before, for he was on the Ophir during the Royal tour. For several years prior to 1896 he was attached to the West Indies squadron, and before joining the Powerful was commissioned to the Royal Yacht.
Flag-Lieutenant Aflfred E.Evans A.D.C. to Vice-Admiral Fawkes, is a first-class cricketer and is a very popular officer.

Midshipmen: Lancelot A.Montgomery, Hugh S. Bowlby, Alexander D. Boyle, Walter J.B. Barton, Rainald H. Burne, Cecil E. Tooth, Colin S. Thomson, Herbert F. Clarke, Wilfred Parke, Cuthbert H. Heath, Basil L. Johnston, Torkel Lundholm, Charlie F. Bush, Arthur W. Blaker, and Edmund A. Hill.

The new flagship signalled Gabo Island at 21.52 yesterday, and passed Green Cape at 1.30 p.m.


 

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Newcastle Guardian and Silverdale, Chesterton and Audley Chronicle
Saturday 30 December 1905

St.Saviour's Church -

Through the generosity of the Misse Marsh-Caldwell of Linley Hall, the members of the St.Saviour's Church choir and the Sunday School teachers and friends, numbering about 100 were entertained to a dinner at Linley Hall on Wednesday evening. 

A splendid repast was provided. During the evening the following toasts were proposed: "The King and Queen," by Mr Edwin Harper: and "The Ladies of Linley Hall," by Mr Crimes, both being responded to with honours.

Short addresses werer given by Mr Samual Jones (choirmaster), Mr Crimes and Mr Edwin Harper. Mr William Edwards (bass) sang  "Off to Philadelphia" (Battison Hayes) in a capital manner and Master Arthur Jackson and Miss Ethel Jackson contributed a duet entitled "A.B.C." Mr George Clarke of Kidsgrove was the accompanist. Dancing was afterwards indulged in until one o'clock, when the party dispersed after spending a most enjoyable evening.

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Photo below from Cuthbert's lost photo album, covering his time at the naval college on board HMS Britannia.