DEVONPORT NAVAL BASE
THE NEW COMMANDER
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The* Evening Post.") AUCKLAND* This Day. The new officer to command the Devonport Naval Base, Commander E. L. Berthon, arrived from Southampton by the Rangitata. He was accompanied by Mrs. Berthon, to whom he was married last December. Commander Berthon, who wag one of the naval officers who took part in the historic raid on Zeebrugge in April, 1918, is to succeed Commander Nelson Clover at the Naval Base, and will take up his duties this month. Commander Berthon, i\lio then held the rank of lieutenant, was one of the officers on board H.M.S. Arindietive_when she ran alongside the mole at Zccbrtigge. Bluejackets and marines, led by their officers, of whom Commander Berthon was one, went over the side by means of speciallyprepared gangways, and, in face of deadly fire from shore batteries. It was* recorded of them that they swarmed ashore "with undaunted gallantry and fought their way splendidly into the German defeaces^
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1931, Page 6
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