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Description: | Ms letter (4pp) from Clerk C F Laborde RN to his father, Commander M H W Laborde RN, December 1914, in which the writer, who was Captain's Clerk in the battle cruiser HMS INFLEXIBLE (Captain R F Phillimore RN) reports on the Battle of the Falkland Islands, emphasising their good fortune in encountering the German squadron and "...what a glorious and plucky fight..." the German ships put up before they were sunk, and describing the rescue of the few survivors from the GNEISENAU. Together with ms notes (2pp) transcribed by Chief Petty Officer H Penfold of the action reports of GNEISENAU's first and second Gunnery Officers on the Battle of the Falkland Islands (December 1914), and a photograph of the gunroom officers of HMS INFLEXIBLE (ca 1912).
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Catalogue date 1977-01-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Laborde, C F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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