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Description: | Collection of loose and mounted prints relating to the Royal Navy career of Captain Lennox Albert Knox Bosell DSO RN during the interwar and Second World War periods. These images include:
Formal and informal group photographs of an RAF Staff Course, Andover, 1938 under the command of Air Vice Marshal (later Air Chief Marshal) Arthur Barratt with Group Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) William Graham, Wing Commander (later Marshal of the Royal Air Force) William Dickson and Wing Commander (later Air Chief Marshal) Arthur Saunders which had on it as delegates Squadron Leader (later Air Chief Marshal) the Earl of Bandon, Squadron Leader (later Air Chief Marshal) Harry Broadhurst AFC and Commander (later Vice Admiral) (William) Geoffrey Robson.
Also formal portrait of officers of HMS KENYA (November 1947); semi-formal portrait of officers of HMS NELSON c 1936 ; semi-formal group photograph of heads of department of HMS DEVONSHIRE, circa 1930-1932l ; Lt Cdr LAK Boswell in full (pre-war) ceremonial dress (c.1926); Head and shoulders studio portrait of LAKB during his time as CO of HMS PELICAN (c 1941) and soon after promotion to Captain c Spring 1941
Scenes during LAKB's service with HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and (while attached) HMS ALBION during the Dardanelles campaign, though primarily on board HMS ALBION during minesweeper duties between April and June 1915 and including: a view of the kite balloon ship HMS HECTOR approaching Valetta, Malta; the harbour at Mytilene with HMS WEAR and HMS EURYALUS seen, preparing French mines on board HMS GAZELLE at Mytilene; hoisting minesweeping wires aboard HMS ALBION off Tenedos a few days before the landing of 25th April 1915; part of French torpedo from submarine JOULES; Turkish prisoners caught gun and petrol running and held under armed guard on board HMS WEAR; French submarine leaving Valetta harbour.
A gun layers target from an 8" gun shoot by HMS TEMERAIRE, the gun salute during the 1911 Coronation Review at Spithead. Reception ceremony to welcome HRH Prince of Wales during a visit to Hong Kong in April 1922, Formal group photograph of HMS EXCELLENT Gun Run team (c.1926), Royal Marine Band at the head of a Remembrance Parade of Royal Navy personnel in Gibraltar with Sir Charles Monro, Governor receiving the salute (n.d. 1923-1928), Mayor of Hull 'Admiral of the Humber' visits HMS PELICAN, spring 1939 greeted by LAKB (Commanding Officer) and Lt Thompson (1st Lieutenant), Wright and Logan port-bow view of HMS PELICAN, views of HMS PELICAN in dry dockshowing damage substained during bombing in April 1940, LAKB receiing DSO from, HM King George VI at Rosyth, 1940 (and corresponding negatives)
Specific scenes during KENYA's tour of the Americas and West Indies Station (1947) and her visits to locations along both the east and west coasts of the Americas including: Bermuda, San Fransisco, Havana, Esquimalt in Canada, Portland, Oregon, and Victoria, British Columbia where a parade and ceremonial march past was held; also seen are a visit to the ship by Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Christmas tradition of youngest boy undertaking Captain's Rounds; and a 'Crossing the Line' ceremony on route to Brazil. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | ALBION (HMS) PELICAN (HMS) KENYA (HMS) Royal Navy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | G Mannell | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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