Jutland Battle Anniversary

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 17

Jutland Battle Anniversary

(NZ.PA Reuter —Copyright)

LONDON, May 27.

British and German warships with veterans of the Battle of Jutland aboard will meet in the North Sea on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the battle.

Wreaths will be laid on the} water and messages ex-i changed. Representing the Royal Navy will be the destroyers Defender and Dainty, of 2800 tons,. The Federal German Navy is sending the frigates Karlsruhe and Braunschweig, of 2100 tons. In London there will be a noon service in St. Martin-in the-Fields, which will be attended by more than 500 veterans, relatives of those who died and representatives of naval organisations. After the service, wreaths will be laid at the memorials to Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty in Trafalgar square by their sons. Other wreaths will be laid on behalf of the Royal Navy and the Federal German Navy. A representative- of Lord Chatfield, the senior surviving officer of the battle, who was Admiral Beatty’s flag captain in the Lion, will lay a wreath on behalf of the officers and men who served in the Grand Fleet.

Among the wreaths will be one from the Ganges, the

Navy’s junior entry training establishment, honouring Seaman Roy Jack Cornwell, aged 16, who was posthumously awarded a V.C. as one of a gun’s crew in the Chester.