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Description: | 20 photocopied letters (31pp) from a variety of correspondents, including Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly and Captain Gordon Campbell VC, covering the dates September 1915 – May 1930 but mainly relating to his service as a Lieutenant RNR in the Q-Ship HMS DUNRAVEN on 8 August 1917 when he won the Victoria Cross during an action against an enemy submarine in the Bay of Biscay including a letter and a telegram to his mother informing her that he had been wounded in this action and letters from former employers, the headmaster of his old school and Walsall Town Council offering their congratulations at his commendation and expressing their pride at being associated with him. Together with photocopies of a ms account (2pp) by an unknown author describing the presentation of Bonner’s VC by HM King George V in the presence of the Royal Family, a ts account (1p) of the action for which he was awarded the VC, two newspaper articles (2pp) relating to the action of 8 August 1917 and Q-Ship crews generally, a Certificate for Wounds and Hurts (1pp) describing his wounds received on 8 August 1917, his RNR Training Certificate Book (5pp), a number of certificates and other papers relating to his service July 1917 – November 1918 and papers relating to his work as Salvage Officer for Forth with the British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) Limited during the Second World War (6pp).
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bonner, Charles George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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