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‘First Combined Naval and Military Manoeuvres Disembarkation and reembarkation at Clacton on Sea September 1904’

photolithograph, print

Accession Number

NAM.1995-08-31-1

Description

First Combined Naval and Military Manoeuvres / Disembarkation and reembarkation / at Clacton on Sea September 1904. Photolithograph after Lt Col Lionel Grimston Fawkes, Professor of Military Topography at Woolwich, 1904 (c). Shows nine vignettes of amusing incidents ‘dedicated to the officers of the “Good Hope” in / remembrance of a very pleasant time on board from Sept 6th to 16th 1904’ HMS Good Hope was one of six cruisers involved in the invasion manoeuvres, all under the the command of Rear Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, possibly a relation of Lionel Fawkes.

Events

Army Manoeuvres, England, 1904 (Exercises 1900-1909)

Units

Royal Artillery

People

John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (1852 - 1925)

Fisher of Kilverstone, John Arbuthnot (Jacky), 1st Baron

Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton GCB GCVO, (1845-1931)

Connaught and Strathearn, Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of, (1850-1942)

Eyre MacDonnell Stewart Crabbe, (1852 - 1905)

Herbert Charles Onslow, 1st Viscount Plumer, (1857 - 1932)

Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, (1859-1929)

Good Hope

Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget GCB GCVO, (1851 - 1928)

Fawkes, Sir Wilmot Hawksworth

Maitland

Lawson

Douglas

Fawkes, Lionel Grimston

Dimensions

Width: 564 mm Text: 380 mm

Inscriptions

‘”Wherever the Army goes the Navy has to carry it on its back” (admiral Sir John Fisher)’. ‘First Combined Naval and Military Manoeuvres / Disembarkation and reembarkation / at CLACTON ON SEA September 1904’. ‘B. Genl Eyre Crabbe’; ‘R. Admiral Sir W. Fawkes’; ‘H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught’; ‘Sir J. French’; ‘Sir J. Maxwell’ ‘Jack and his new mate’; ‘Pontoons being made by the men of the Cruiser Squadron First infantry landing - Foreign attaches making notes!’; ‘Landing places offer special advantage where there are bathing machines available for the head quarters of beach-masters!’; ‘Jack giving the Mounted Infantry a lead at low water’; ‘Flag Lieut Maitland’; ‘Gen Paget’; ‘Admiral Fawkes’; ‘Sir N Lyttelton’; ‘B.Gen Lawson’; Genl Douglas’; Genl Plumer’; ‘Beach lighted up by Flares at night’; ‘Beach-parties having tea between the arrival of horse-boats’; ‘”Hard a port”!!’; It will be necessary in future for soldiers to qualify as interpreters in nautical language.’; ‘At cross purposes!’.

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