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EWART ([Lady] Evelyn C.)
Victor Alexander Ewart, A Memoir.
1st Ed., [iii]+87pp., 193x134mm, portrait frontis., another portrait (in childhood). Privately Printed by A.L. Humphreys.
1921
#69298
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Lieutenant Victor Alexander Ewart, Royal Navy, was the only child of Major-General Sir Henry and Lady Evelyn Ewart. Born in 1891, he was educated at the Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth. By 1914 he was serving in HMS Queen Mary; was in action at Heligoland Bight and went down with the ship (commanding X Turret) during the Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916. His only grave is the sea and he is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. He was twenty-five years old. A memoir by his mother describing the events of his life and naval career; also various letters and contributions from naval officers describing services of HMS Queen Mary at Jutland and elsewhere. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & rare.
£220
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