Team of light cruiser HMS Ceres - Fleet Rowing Competition
Crew team of the HMS Ceres - winners of the all comers race at the Royal Navy Fleet Rowing Competition, 1928. In the centre is Admiral Sir Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley VC, (1893-1986) - a senior Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross. In 1924 he went to the Mediterranean Fleet for four years, serving under Roger Keyes. Crutchley was on HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1924-1926, and then on the light cruiser HMS Ceres (as pictured here) in 1926-1928
Picture No
11773171
Media ID
46698889
Size
5298px x 3360px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
1928
