A NOTABLE RECORD
DEAD VICE-ADMIRAL (British Official Wireless.) Roc. July 21. RUGBY, July 19. Vice-Admiral E. Astley-Kushton, who was killed in a railway accident to-day, since April, 1934, had been in command of the reserve fleet, which was specially mobilised for the Jubilee review, and on Tuesday he was one ot the King’s guests at dinner on the Royal yacht. He commanded the cruiser Southampton, which was the first naval ship to sink a German submarine by gunfire. In -1931, lie became commander of the second cruiser squadron and paid the first post-war naval visit to Gorman waters.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 11
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98A NOTABLE RECORD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 11
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