ADMIRAL WHO LOST NELSON’S TELESCOPE.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 12. Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle, who is sixty-one years of age, and who had King George as a brother midshipman when he joined the Navy in 1881, has retired at his own request.
It is recalled that when Sir Sydney was flying his flag on the battleship Russell after Gallipoli she was sunk by German mines off Malta. The Admiral escaped with a crushed foot. A minesweeper picked him up after he had been half an hour in the water, but he had lost Nelson’s telescope, which had been bequeathed to him by his great-grandfather, who fought at Trafalgar. Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Field has been promoted Admiral. Captain Gordon Campbell, V.C., the originator and best-known commander of the “Q” boats, and Captain A. N. Sulivan, who was captain of the Renown on the tour of the Duke and Duchess of York, have been promoted Rear-Admirals for one day, after which they retired. The Vice-Admiralship of Rear-Admiral HallThompson, formerly in Australia, has been gazetted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18450, 28 April 1928, Page 12
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