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Description: | Printed letter (1p), on Admiralty notepaper and dated 5 January 1915, from the Accountant General of the Navy to Ordinary Signalman Melluish's mother (with his name misspelt) stating that her son was not among the survivors from the battleship HMS FORMIDABLE which had been sunk four days before and that "he must be regarded as having lost his life"; printed letter (1p), dated 16 February 1915, from the Director of Greenwich Hospital informing his mother of the gratuity awarded to her in consideration of the death of her son; printed commemorative scroll identifying the major warships in which officers and ratings of the Royal Navy and the Navies of the Dominions lost their lives between 1914 and 1918; and the next of kin memorial plaque given to Melluish's family.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1998-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Melluish, W E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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