拍品专文
INDENTJohn Towl, Stoker 1st. Class died of wounds received in H.M.S. Valkyrie off the Dutch coast, 23 December 1917
Earl Dalton, Able Seaman, H.M.S. Ardent, was killed in action, 9 June 1940, when together with H.M.S. Acasta, the Ardent was sunk on its return from Norway by the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau; he has no known grave
Thomas Lewis Tozer, R.N.V.R., Royal Naval Division 'Howe' Bn. was killed in action at the Village of Gavrelle, near Arras, 24 April 1917 -- aged 19 years
Captain Edwin John Garlick, born 1900, an outstanding Master Mariner, entered the Mercantile Marine as an apprentice, 1916; he logged 36 voyages from 1920-38 mostly as 2nd. or 1st. Mate; the S.S. Toronto City, taken over by the Admiralty, September 1940 for meteorological work was operating in the North Atlantic; the vessel reported herself about 1000 miles east of Cape Race bound for St. Johns, Newfoundland; nothing more was heard from the ship -- German radio claimed that she had been sunk by a U-Boat (probably U108); Garlick's name is commemorated on the Memorial at Tower Hill, London as he has no known grave but the sea
Earl Dalton, Able Seaman, H.M.S. Ardent, was killed in action, 9 June 1940, when together with H.M.S. Acasta, the Ardent was sunk on its return from Norway by the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau; he has no known grave
Thomas Lewis Tozer, R.N.V.R., Royal Naval Division 'Howe' Bn. was killed in action at the Village of Gavrelle, near Arras, 24 April 1917 -- aged 19 years
Captain Edwin John Garlick, born 1900, an outstanding Master Mariner, entered the Mercantile Marine as an apprentice, 1916; he logged 36 voyages from 1920-38 mostly as 2nd. or 1st. Mate; the S.S. Toronto City, taken over by the Admiralty, September 1940 for meteorological work was operating in the North Atlantic; the vessel reported herself about 1000 miles east of Cape Race bound for St. Johns, Newfoundland; nothing more was heard from the ship -- German radio claimed that she had been sunk by a U-Boat (probably U108); Garlick's name is commemorated on the Memorial at Tower Hill, London as he has no known grave but the sea