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(More customer reviews)In January 1878, 12 year old Edward (Ned) Charlton joined the training ship HMS Britannia and in 1924 Admiral Sir Edward Charlton KCB. KCMG. retired. During the intervening 46 years, Ned Charlton had witnessed a lifetime of historic events, met some very interesting people and served on a wide variety of ships in an equally wide variety of situations, conflicts and, of course, throughout WW1, as he worked his way through the ranks of the Royal Navy. Throughout those invigorating years, Ned's private letters home were kept by the various members of his family. To these were added his own collection of private papers and historic photographs when he finally died in 1937.
For more than 50 years this unique collection of ephemera lay almost forgotten until Frank Urban - grandson of Ned Charlton, began a study of the content. With help and advice from other members of the Charlton clan - now found all over the world, Frank Urban has pieced together a most fascinating insight into one man's career and experiences which spanned a most historic period.
Ned's Navy is a hardback book measuring 10¾in x 8½in and is packed with over 170 pages of details and photographs - all of which are bound together by the single thread "Ned Charlton was there." This is a collection of anecdotes and photographs previously unseen and, in many cases, previously not known to exist. From historic warships alongside the south mole of Gibraltar Harbour in 1883, HMS Orlando and the Boxer Rebellion of 1901, service onboard HMS Hood (later sunk in Portland Harbour) in 1893, duties in the Far East in 1905, a tale of Scandal and Intrigue from 1912 and, of course WW1, this provides considerable insight into life in and around the Royal Navy during a period of 46 years. A truly first-rate book - and an excellent read, I would think it may also provide some missing links for those historians who are researching certain specifics.
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