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Letters: Lloyds Patriotic Fund Sword

A.N. Other · Dec 15, 2002 ·

LLOYDS PATRIOTIC FUND SWORD AT LADY DENMAN MARITIME MUSEUM Dear Sir, Engraving on the sword reads: “From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Mr Wm. Pitt Bowler, Midshipman of HM Sloop Swift ...

Lloyds Patriotic Fund Presentation Swords

Francis, Richard · Dec 15, 2002 ·

PRESENTATION SWORDS AS GIFTS OF ESTEEM to deserving officers for brave conduct in the defence of trade and the realm had been a custom in many countries prior to the ...

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Submarine Memories

Selby, Gordon · Dec 15, 2002 ·

ON 1ST JULY 1941 Lieutenant Wanklyn received his promotion to Lieutenant Commander and the Malta based submarines became the 10th Submarine Flotilla. At about the same time I was rated ...

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Darwin’s Floating Dry-Dock

Betty, John G, Lieutenant, RANVR Ret’d · Dec 15, 2002 ·

John Betty submitted this article for the Naval Officer’s Club competition in May 2002. It was awarded second prize. Sadly, he did not live to collect it. Logistics: the art ...

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Service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1940 – 1946

Buckley, Lieutenant N.W. AM RNVR · Dec 15, 2002 ·

A short account of some wartime experiences – Awarded Second Prize, Naval Officers Club Literary Prize 2001 THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR in September 1939 caught most people, ...

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