NAVAL VETERAN DEAD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 4

NAVAL VETERAN DEAD.

A LISTING LUSHED R ECORD. MAN WHO “CALLED THE KING TOORDER.” A prominent King’s Empire veteran with a distinguished career in tlie Royal Navy, Captain H. Goodwyn Archer, died on Thursday, aged 79, Captain. Archer was president of tlie Auckland branch of tlie Veterans’ Association since its inception, and was a picturesque and well-known figuie. Captain Archer was born, at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and ut the age of 13 entered tlie Royal Naval Training College at Greenwich, England. One of his colleagues' there wuisj the present King. Lu later years, when Captain Archer senior .midshipman to King George on H.M.S. Britannia, he hud occasion to call the King (then Duke of York) to order and boxed his ears. When the King visited New Zealand as Duke of York lie met Captain Archer again and remembered the incident at onc-e when it was mentioned to hint. Captain Archer saw extensive active service, and was first under fire at the age of 15. as midshipman on H.M. f. igate- Galatea, which revenged the less of H.M.S. Bulldog, sunk with loss of life by the soldiery of San Domingo. The next occasion wa,s the laud invasion at Swatow (China) by tlie boats of Sir Henry Keppel’s flagship Rlodney. Then Captain Archer took part in the first Ashanti War from beginning to end, after which lie joined H.M. corvette Encounter, which was one of a. squadron of gunboats that inflicted a memorable rebuke upon pirates at the month of tlie Congo who had murdered British subjects. : Ror his service- im this campaign Captain Archer was mentioned in dispatches. Retiring, from the Navy with the rank of commander in 1880, Captain Archer came to New Zealand three years* later, and settled at Auckland. *