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Officers of HMT Victoria

Date(s): 1944-1946

Creator(s): unknown photographer

Scope & Content: A note on the back of the print states that the image was taken at Dover around about 'D Day' and the date is given as 1944-1946. Various names and ranks are given on the front of the image but are quite patchy. They appear to read: Bobbie Kneale, Bride, (R Kneale 3rd Eng), (4th Eng) Capt Martyn?, (C Eng), 2nd Mate W Kissack, Carpenter P Karran?, A Kellie (2nd Engr), W A Cain (?Engr), Captain Philip James 'Ginger' Bridson (who was aboard HMS Malaya in WWI and took the Viking to Guernsey to evacuate the children in 1940), Mate S Gelling, Mate T Cubbon, Wireless operator J Davidson. A faint pencil note also reads 'Lambert Weston, Folkestone'.

Language: eng

Extent: 18 x 22.5 cm

Physical description: Black & white print on board

Item name: photograph

Collection: Photographic Archive

Level: ITEM

ID number: PG/14585/3

Record class: Private

Subject tags : #ALLATSEA

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