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Description: | Prints relating to the service of Lt John Cliff-McCulloch in the Royal Navy Reserve during the First and Second World Wars and the interwar period. Subjects covered include: Assembled officers of HMS MALAYA (1917); visit of King George V to ships of the fleet including MALAYA and BARHAM; ships bell being presented to MALAYA by the Federated Malay States; Admiral Sir John Jellicoe aboard MALAYA striking the presentation bell; gun crews of MALAYA's port 6 inch battery; visit to MALAYA by HRH Prince Albert (Later George VI); Fifth Battle Squadron in heavy weather; HMS PALADIN; theatrical party held by HSM MALAYA's officers; various officers of HMS MALAYA; view of fleet at anchor in Scapa Flow from Flotta Island; HM King George V with Sir David Beatty; Royal Marines marching past King George V on Quarterdeck of MALAYA; MALAYA's harbour watch keepers; company of HMS REVENGE march past George V on board ship; HMS ARGYLLE after hitting Bell Rock; boxing tournament within the Grand Fleet; Kitchener's memorial on Marwick head; naval cemetary at Lyness on Orkney, French flagship MONTCALM; New Zealand Expeditionary Force occupying German Samoa; scenes Battle of Jutland including 'Windy Corner', German 12 inch salvo falling over HMS MALAYA; HMS LION and PRINCESS ROYAL passing remains of INVINCIBLE, salvo hitting HMS LION; damage to MALAYA from German shells during Battle of Jutland; postcards showing German fleet after the surrender and scuttling; New Zealand Expeditionary Force entering Hobart Habour, October 1914; clearing Suez canal and British military posrt after Turkish attack February 1915; British and French warships on way to Dardanelles. Interwar images depict HMS DIOMEDE's voyage between Auckland and Portsmouth, via Opunoku Bay on the Society Islands, Tahiti, Galapagos Islands, Panama Canal in 1928; Second World war pictures include Mersey River, October 1939; German air attacks on Hood, Repulse, Ark Royal and Renown; images reported to be of the sinking of German submarine UB-76 by HMS ARBUTUS, 1943; SS MARTHURA reaches Liverpool after enemy bombing at Aden, November 1940; French ships RICHELIEU, CHANTILLY and others captured or damaged after British attack on Dakar, November 1940; Norwegian officers in HMNS BAHL; various newspaper clippings. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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