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| Picture No | 10640484 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | Commodore R Y Tyrwhitt of the Arethusa, WW1 |
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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.
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| Source | Photograph by Heath in ‘The Bystander’, 2 September 1914, p475 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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