Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain C. T. A. Noddall, C.B., Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (Master. Thos. Augs. Noddall. H.M.S. London) contemporary engraved naming in the style of Hunt & Roskell; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Thos. Aug. Noddall, Master H.M.S. London) privately engraved naming; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels; Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels (Thos. Aug. Noddall, Master H.M.S. London) privately engraved naming on reverse centre, considerable damage to enamels on Legion of Honour, otherwise very fine and better (4) £500-£600

C.B. (Military) London Gazette 24 May 1873.

Legion of Honour London Gazette 1 August 1856.

Order of the Medjidie London Gazette 3 April 1858.

Cornelius Thomas Augustus Noddall was appointed Acting Second Master on 30 December 1834; Master, 1 January 1840; Commander, 22 February 1860; Staff Captain, 1 July 1867.

30 December 1834, appointed as Acting Second Master to the Griffon, for service on the Cape of Good Hope and Coast of Africa station. 15 February 1840, appointed as Master to the sloop Racer, on the North America and West Indies station). 28 February 1843, appointed to the Curaçao, on the Brazilian station. 7 January 1848, appointed to the Wellesley, flag ship on the North America and West Indies stations. 5 December 1851, appointed to the London, then based at Sheerness.

At the outbreak of the Crimean war he was still Master of H.M.S. London, 90 guns, and he is mentioned by Major-General W. Brereton in The British Fleet in the Black Sea, in connection with the attack on Sebastopol on 17 October 1854, as follows:

‘An act of daring had occurred during the night preceding the action. Mr Mainprise, Master of the Britannia, with the Masters of the London (Mr C. Noddall) and Sampson (Mr Forbes), undertook to go to the harbour to take soundings for the British fleet, and accomplished their hazardous service in boats with muffled oars; they went so near to the Russian forts (Fort Constantine) that they were hailed repeatedly be the enemy’s look-out boats, whose vigilance they managed to baffle, and returned in safety with their important information, which was acted upon in the subsequent action. All honour to these daring spirits, of whom their gallant service may well be proud!’

On 30 March 1855, he was appointed additional Master-Attendant for the Bosphorous (under the Malta Dockyard) and in November of the same year was lent to the Transport Officer, Constantinople. On 1 April 1858 he became Master-Attendant of Victualling at Gosport, a post he still held after his promotion to Commander in 1860. He retired with the rank of Captain on 14 October 1867, and died at Torquay on 22 June 1874, aged 61 years.