FATE UNKNOWN
PAYMASTER-COMMANDER
TOTTENHAM
Paymaster-Commander E. L. Tottenham is believed by the Navy Office in Wellington to have been on board the British cruiser Fiji, which was lost in the operations off Crete. He succeeded Paymaster-Commander E. R. Durman, R.N., as Naval Secretary in New Zealand .in June. 1935, and was made a member of the Naval Board. While holding these appointments he held the rank of paymaster-captain. He was
relieved by Paymaster-Captain N. T. | Cooper, R.N., in May, 1939, when he left for England, accompanied by his wife and daughter, now 16 years of age. Commander Tottenham joined the | Royal Navy in 1913 and served during the Great War with the Grand Fleet. He was with the Naval Inter-Allied Commission for the Adriatic and Aus-tria-Hungary in 1920 and 1921 as secretary to Admiral Sir Hugh Watson, X.C.8., with whom he was associated' until 1929. From 1930 to 1933 Commander Tottenham was secretary to the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian j Gulf, and he then joined H.M.S. St. Vincent, the boys' training establishment at Gosport, where lie remained untiJ the following year. He was then ! appointed accountant officer in H.M.S Delhi, the flagship of the Third Cruiser Squadron, in which he served until 1935.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 10
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