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Description:Chapters: Arthur Wilson, Walter Marcon, Edward Rose, Michael Carroll, Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, Sidney Dye, Hilda Plowright. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson VC, GCB, OM, GCVO (4 March 1842 25 May 1921), was an English Admiral and briefly First Sea Lord who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the war in Sudan. An early expert on torpedoes, he twice commanded HMS Vernon but his statement that submarines were "underhand, unfair and damned un-English" may have needlessly delayed their UK development. His suggestion that in war time, their crew should be hanged as pirates led to UK submarines flying the Jolly Roger. He was born on 4 March 1842 in Swaffham in Norfolk, the son of Rear-Admiral George Knyvet Wilson. He was the nephew of Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson of Delhi. He entered the Royal Navy in 1855 and served as a midshipman aboard HMS Algiers during the Crimean War followed by the China War (1858), the Egyptian Campaign (1882) and the Sudan Campaign (1884). In 1870 he became a member of the committee investigating the effectiveness of the Whitehead torpedo and in 1876 became commander of the new torpedo school HMS Vernon rewriting torpedo manuals, inventing aiming apparatus and developing submarine mine warfare. He was 41 years old, and a captain in the Naval Brigade, during the Sudan Campaign when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 29 February 1884 at the Battle of El Teb, Sudan, Captain Wilson of HMS Hecla attached himself, during the advance, to the right half-battery, Naval Brigade, in place of a lieutenant who was mortally wounded. As the troops closed on the enemy battery, the Arabs charged out on the detachment which was dragging one of the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=118922We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Swaffham: Arthur Wilson, Walter Marcon, Edward Rose, Michael Carroll, Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, Sidney Dye, Hilda Plowright. To get started finding People from Swaffham: Arthur Wilson, Walter Marcon, Edward Rose, Michael Carroll, Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, Sidney Dye, Hilda Plowright, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2010

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Description: Chapters: Arthur Wilson, Walter Marcon, Edward Rose, Michael Carroll, Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, Sidney Dye, Hilda Plowright. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson VC, GCB, OM, GCVO (4 March 1842 25 May 1921), was an English Admiral and briefly First Sea Lord who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the war in Sudan. An early expert on torpedoes, he twice commanded HMS Vernon but his statement that submarines were "underhand, unfair and damned un-English" may have needlessly delayed their UK development. His suggestion that in war time, their crew should be hanged as pirates led to UK submarines flying the Jolly Roger. He was born on 4 March 1842 in Swaffham in Norfolk, the son of Rear-Admiral George Knyvet Wilson. He was the nephew of Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson of Delhi. He entered the Royal Navy in 1855 and served as a midshipman aboard HMS Algiers during the Crimean War followed by the China War (1858), the Egyptian Campaign (1882) and the Sudan Campaign (1884). In 1870 he became a member of the committee investigating the effectiveness of the Whitehead torpedo and in 1876 became commander of the new torpedo school HMS Vernon rewriting torpedo manuals, inventing aiming apparatus and developing submarine mine warfare. He was 41 years old, and a captain in the Naval Brigade, during the Sudan Campaign when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 29 February 1884 at the Battle of El Teb, Sudan, Captain Wilson of HMS Hecla attached himself, during the advance, to the right half-battery, Naval Brigade, in place of a lieutenant who was mortally wounded. As the troops closed on the enemy battery, the Arabs charged out on the detachment which was dragging one of the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=118922We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Swaffham: Arthur Wilson, Walter Marcon, Edward Rose, Michael Carroll, Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, Sidney Dye, Hilda Plowright. To get started finding People from Swaffham: Arthur Wilson, Walter Marcon, Edward Rose, Michael Carroll, Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, Sidney Dye, Hilda Plowright, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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