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Description: | Ms letter (3pp), dated 26 November 1918, to his eldest brother from the Lieutenant Commander in command of HMS WATCHMAN (11th Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet) describing King George V's visit to the Grand Fleet on 20 November and in particular the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet on the following day, which had been 'a very fine sight' with WATCHMAN forming part of the escorting force, and his subsequent inspection of the German destroyer S60, 'filthy dirty throughout, discipline entirely relaxed'. He concludes that, with the surrender of the German fleet, 'there can be nothing much more for us to do'; together with a ts letter (1p), dated 28 March 1930, from Commander R Langton-Jones RN, allegedly the last man to leave Gallipoli in January 1916, to Fawcett thanking him for embarking him in the destroyer HMS FURY under extremely difficult circumstances on that occasion and a presscutting from THE TIMES, 14 January 1935, in which Langton-Jones pays public tribute to Fawcett's 'superb feat of seamanship' during the final evacuation of the peninsula.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2006-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Fawcett, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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