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REAR ADMIRAL DICKENSON HALL MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS FOR 'SAILOR'S LUCK'
memoirs, four typed volumes, wrappers, 423pp. together with an abridged book entitled Sailor's Luck, 1999; and a conferral signed by the Queen ('Elizabeth R') appointing him a Commander of the Bath (Third Class) and two large folding maps (Land's End to Falmouth and River Gambia, Albreka to Kuntaur) -- 11¾ x 8¼in. (29.6 x 21cm.)
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Rear Admiral Geoffrey Penrose Dickinson HALL, C.B., D.S.C., D.L. Haileybury Melville (1930-1934) was born in 1916, Naval cadet 1934, Midshipman 1935, Sub-lieutenant 1938, Lieutenant 1939, Lieutenant Commander 1946, Commander 1953, Captain 1961, Rear Admiral 1971. During War II he served in Malaga, the Atlantic, West Africa, Burma, Ceylon, Sumatra (mentioned in despatches). Honorary ADC to the Queen (1970), C.B. 1973, retired 1975, Deputy Lieutenant Lincolnshire 1982. He was the twentieth hydrographer of the Navy since the post was established in 1795.
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