Author: JELLICOE Admiral of the Fleet Viscount
Title: The Grand Fleet 1914-16. Its Creation, Development and Work. WITH BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC PROVENANCE
Description: Cassell,, 1919. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, coloured plate, 9 monochrome plates on 7, 9 large folding charts coloured in outline and 4 folding diagrams in pocket at end, some light spotting to fore-edges, a few charts lightly spotted at folds, additional neat signature on front free endpaper; navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, joints mildly rubbed else a good, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIAM JOSSELYN RN AND BEARS HIS NEAT HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE (DATED 1919) ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. During WWII, Captain J.W. Josselyn commanded INTREPID (1939-1942), CARADOC (1942-1943), and HAWKINS (from 1943). It was whilst in command of INTREPID that he took part (together with INGLEFIELD and IVANHOE) in the sinking of U-45 by depth charge off the south-west coast of Ireland in October 1939. He retired from the service in 1949. Albion, p.271; Enser, p.309

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, ww2, royal navy, grand fleet, jutland, jellicoe, beatty, josselyn, atlantic, intrepid


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