Commodore R Y Tyrwhitt of the Arethusa, WW1
Commodore (later Admiral of the Fleet) Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt (1870 - 1951), British naval officer. As Commodore of the Arethusa, he won the first naval victory of the First World War against German cruisers in the Bight of Heligoland, a German island in the North Sea
Picture No
10640484
Media ID
46094832
Size
3357px x 4954px
(2.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Heath in The Bystander', 2 September 1914, p475
Date
1914
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