A pre-war midshipman, he retired a Lieutenant-Commander 23 September 1959. Notices | All Notices | The Gazette... Pipped at the post!
Fascinating, My grandfather. He passed in 1994, I still have the black toleware case containing his full formal dress of a pair of gold epaulettes, a black bicorn hat, a black leather belt and a black and gilt sword belt, all by J. Grieve & Sons, along with the dress sword.