Lt. Edward Bulteel, HMTB 12, Royal Navy

            In loving memory of
EDWARD WYNTER BULTEEL
Lieutenant Royal Navy
Who was killed while on active service in
Command of H.M. Torpedo Boat No. 12
June 10th 1915, aged 28 years

HORATIA MARGARET BULTEEL
1899 - 1987
Mizpah

Lt. Edward Wynter Bulteel, HM Torpedo Boat 12, Royal Navy.
Born on 25th. November 1886 in Assana India, the son of Edward Wynter, a tea planter, and Jane Sarah Bulteel, nee Nevinson of Chandkhira tea estate, Sylhet, Assam. 
Brother of Major Samuel Dominick Bulteel, born 1893, died 1917.
By 1901 Edward was at boarding school in Alverstoke, Gosport in Hampshire. 

On joining the Royal Navy Edward was posted as a Cadet to the training ship HMS Britannia on 15th. January 1902, coming 45th. from 61 in the intakes order of merit. 
He was promoted to Midshipman on 18th. July 1903, and commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant on 15th. October 1906. He was posted to the Cressy-class armoured cruiser HMS Sutlej and was aboard her when she participated in the rescue operations after the Messina earthquake of 28th. December 1908, being one of the men the Navy sent ashore to give assistance. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30th. June 1909.

Edward married Horatia Margaret Gaskell on 29th. July 1914 at  St. Andrew’s church in Cobham, Surrey. She was the daughter of the Revd. Thomas Kynaston and Horatia Gaskell, nee Hugo. She was born at Leaton Vicarage in Shropshire in August 1889 and was known as 'Daisey'. The couple had one child, Rosemary, born in 1915 at Chertsey, Surrey. She died 1991. 
When Rosemary married a Canadian naval officer, Horatia followed her to Canada in 1947. She died in Canada in 1987 having been a widow for 72 years. She is remembered on Edward's headstone.

Edward received his first and only command when he was appointed to the command of TB 12 on 1st. August 1914.
At midnight on 9th. June 1915, TB 12 and three other such vessels plus five destroyers left Harwich, Essex, their mission was to search the North Sea off the Thames Estuary for reported German submarines. They did not find any submarines but did find mines laid by the German submarine UC-11, under the command of Walter Gottfried Schmidt, two days earlier. 
At 15.30 on 10th. June, TB 12’s bow was rocked by a large explosion, thought to have been caused by a torpedoed fired from the German submarine U21, under the command of Commander Otto Hersing, although a mine cannot be ruled out either. TB 12 stayed afloat and as her sister ship TB 10 came alongside the crew abandoned ship. At 16.10, TB 10 also suffered a devastating explosion, splitting in two and sinking. HMTB 12 was taken in tow by a trawler, but to no avail as she sank between the Sunk lightvessel and the Shipwash South Buoy. In total 48 men had been lost including Edward and 22 ratings from TB 12.
Edward died, aged 28. He is buried in R.N. Plot. 35 at St. Mary's in Shotley, Suffolk. 
He is also remembered in All Souls Chapel of St. James church in Weybridge, Surrey. 

Edward was awarded the following, 
Royal Navy British War Medal
Victory Medal 
Messina Earthquake Medal 1908
These medals were sold as Lot 95 by Spink Auctioneers for £320, date unknown.

   

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Taken on: April 30, 2024

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