Admiral Crabbe An important Visitors’ Book with 845 signatures (Oct 1935 to Dec 1940), most of which have been identified, include witnesses to the Nanking massacre, a fine collection of Royal Navy captains at the start of WW2, and John Alexander Fraser and Major Lanceray Newnham, who were tortured and executed by the Japanese, and posthumously award the George Cross. Fraser’s GC was sold for £228, 000 in 2016. These are two of the rarest WW2 signatures to come on the market. Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR (Rear Admiral) Eric Gascoigne Robinson VC, OBE, Hkn, MID rare Victoria Cross winner. Comes with list of the signatures. Includes many Killed in Action during the war with huge array of Admirals and important medal winners. Full list of signatures included, following hundreds of hours of research. Sure to have some valuable and scarce autographs. Includes [Brigadier] Gordon Burnett Gifford Hull CBE, MSS, MID,[Later Col] Paul Hector Munro-Faure OBE [SOE],[Later Lt-Cdr] William Wyndham Mortimer MBE, MID, [Lt-Col] Gerald Frederick Conyngham Corfield DSO (83632),[Lt-Col] Mervyn Claude Dearlove Latimer Reynolds OBE, LoM, [Surg-Cdr (Retired)] Professor William Innes Gerrard OBE, MD, ChB, DPH, MRCP, 2nd [later Capt] Francis Sidney Cuningham Hancock (66698), 2nd Lt [later Flight Lieutenant] Alfred Outram Pullman DFC [Killed 6 Feb 1954 - Mau Mau uprising, Kenya],A Bosselman,A Czarnetzki,A/Lt-Col Macdonald Wilson,Admiral Francis Herbert Mitchell CB, DSO,Adrian Conway Evans,Aileen Mary Purves,Air Commodore [later Air Vice-Marshal] Stanley James Goble CBE, DSO, DSC, CdeG, MID x 2,Alan John Bell, Andrew Lusk Shields [Died 24 Jul 1944 as a PoW, Stanley Internment Camp], Brigadier John Penrose MC, MID x 2, Capt (E) [later Rear-Admiral] Alexander Livingston Penrose Mark-Wardlaw, Capt (retired) Bernard Knightley Boase, Capt (retired) Geoffrey D'oyly Earwaker CdeG, Capt (retired) Henry Neville Lake DSO, DSC, Capt (Retired) Henry Percival Wilson, Capt (Retired) Salisbury Hamilton Simpson DSO*, CdeG, Capt [later A/Lt-Col] Frank Andrew Milliken RM [Died on war service 7 Sep 1945, Penang, Malaysia], Capt [later Admiral of the Fleet Sir] Philip Louis Vian GCB, KCB, CB, KBE, DSO**, LegH, CdeG, LM, DSM, StOlav, Dbg, MID x 5, Capt [later Admiral Sir] Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton KCB, CB, DSO*, MID x 2, Capt [later Admiral Sir] Reginald Portal KCB, CB, DSC, MID, Capt [later Col] Frank Walden MBE, DL, Capt [later Lieut-General Sir] Roger Herbert Bower KCB, KBE, Capt [later Lt-Col] John Sholto Henry Douglas OBE, MID x 3, Capt [later Lt-Col] William Frank Paget Whitmarsh OBE, RM, Capt [later Maj-Gen] Robert Alexander Stephen CBE, QHS, MD, ChM, MID x 3 (63177), Capt [later Rear-Admiral] Douglas Adams Budgen CB, Capt [later Rear-Admiral] Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke CBE, DSC, LM, C&B, MID, Capt [later Rear-Admiral] Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke CBE, DSC, LM, C&B, MID, Capt [later Vice Admiral] Frank Henderson Pegram CB, DSO, StOlav [On 29 Apr 1940, he evacuated King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav of Norway. Died 8 Mar 1944], Capt [later Vice-Admiral (retired)] Harold Hickling CB, CBE, DSO, Capt [later Vice-Admiral (Retired)] John George Lawrence Dundas CB, CBE, MID, Capt [later Vice-Admiral] Benjamin Charles Stanley Martin KBE, CBE, DSO, MID x 2 [Sank Bismarck], Capt [later Vice-Admiral] Henry Cecil Bovell CB, CBE, DSO, Capt [later Vice-Admiral] John Hughes-Hallett CB, DSO, LoP, MID x 2, Capt Alexander Nelson Overell, Capt Berthold William Knowles, RMCapt Charles Alfred Evelyn Stanfield MID, Capt Charles Leonard Edwards RM, Rear Admiral Hubert Lynes CB, CMG, Rear-Admiral Colin Alfred Molyneux Sarel OBE, Hkn, Rear-Admiral Francis Hugh Walter Goolden CB, Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Robert Sladen Watkins DSO*, MID, Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley KCMG, KCVO, Rear-Admiral Sir Oswald Henry Dawson KBE, MID, Reginald Geoffrey Hopwood, Reverend Dr Robert Ellsworth Brown [Hero of the Nanking Massacre], Robert Foster Benson [Died 18 Oct 1944 - Bandoeng Internment Camp, Tjimahi], Robert Lucine Acton, Robert Raymond De Layarde Liesching [SOE], Sir Alasdair Duncan Atholl Macgregor [Died 30 Oct 1945 - buried at sea], Sir John Kinloch, Sir Lionel Ashton Piers Warner CBE, JP, Sir Man-kam Lo CBE, Sir Michael Cavenagh Gillett KBE, CMG, Sir Peter Proby, Sir Robert Ho Tung Bosman KBE, JP, Sir Robert Hormus Kotewall CMG, Sir Thomas Aubrey Lawies Brocklebank, SL [later Cdr] Mavorn Baldwin Philip Francklin DSC, MID, SL [later Cdr] Tobin Subremont Weston DSO, DSC, SL [later Lt-Cdr] Henry Denys Verschoyle DSC, MID, SL [later Lt-Cdr] John Chaloner Ogle DSC, SL [later Lt-Cdr] John Leslie Buckeridge MBE, MID, SL [later Lt-Cdr] Nigel Bowden-Smith DSC, SL [later Rear-Admiral] Francis Brian Price Brayne-Nicholls DSC, MID, SL Charles Thomas Alfred Stannard RNR, SL Donald Henry Fraser RNVR, SL Henry Corbett Price RNVR, Squadron Leader [later Group Captain] John Evelyn Matier MacCallum (26039) [died on active service 7 Jan 1944], Squadron Leader Albert Thomas Yiend, Capt Donald Keppel Bain DSO, Capt Edgar William Buchanan DSC, MID, Capt Edward Chicheley Thornton DSC, Capt Edward William Herford Blake [Killed 20 Apr 1940 - bombing raid on Portsmouth], Capt Edwin Samuel Maurice Ayscough (15906), Capt Eric Barry Kenvyn Stevens DSO*, DSC, LegH, CdeG, Capt Francis Herbert Mohun Vaughan OBE, MID, Capt Frederick Ernest Edward Godfrey Schreiber, Capt Gerald Douglas Yates Hkn, Capt Graham Francis Winstanley Wilson DSO, MID [German PoW 10 Jun 1940 - 1945], Capt Guy Hamilton Hkn, MID, Capt Harry Grattan, Capt Henry Taprell Dorling DSO, LM, MID [the author "Taffrail"], Capt John Palmer Landon, Capt Morris Yates, Capt Norris Joseph Asquith, Capt Percy Todd CBE, DSO, MID x 3 [KIA 24 Oct 1943 - HMS Eclipse], Capt Reginald Harold Gordon Ashby [Killed 5 Apr 1941], Capt Richard Lloyd Hamer DSO, Capt Sir John Meynell Alleyne DSO, DSC, Cdr (E) James Hartley Brandon Dathan DSC, MID, Cdr (Retired) [later A/Capt] John Henry Jauncey DSO*, Cdr [later A/Capt] Andrew Nichol Grey DSO, MID x 3, Cdr [later A/Capt] Ian Hamilton Bockett-Pugh DSO**, MID, Cdr [later A/Capt] John Duncan Campbell OBE, DSC, MID, Cdr [later Admiral] John Arthur Symons Eccles KCB, KCVO, CBE, MID, Cdr [later Capt] Antony Fane de Salis MBE, DSO, MID x 2, Cdr [later Capt] Arthur Henry Spurgeon OBE, RAN [Died 6 Dec 1942], Cdr [later Capt] Charles Thorburn Addis DSO, MID [sank German battlecruiser Scharnhorst 26 Dec 1943], Cdr [later Capt] Colin Wauchope CBE, DSC [Died on the Sick List 26 May 1945], Cdr [later Capt] Earle Hathway Thomas DSC*, Cdr [later Capt] Eric Barry Kenvyn Stevens DSO*, DSC, LegH, CdeG, Cdr [later Capt] Gilbert Ridley Waymouth CBE, MID x 2, Cdr [later Capt] Harry Robert Graham DSO, DSC, MID x 3, Cdr [later Capt] Hugh Geary Cooke MIOD x 2, Cdr [later Capt] Hugh Waters Shelley Browning DSC, OBE, MID x 4.
