Posted by admin on Feb 14, 2012
It was 1915 when the World War I vessel HMS Hythe sank in Turkey while on operations. And a letter recently uncovered by a historian, who stumbled across it in a militaria shop in Hastings, Sussex, details the bravery of the ship’s captain.
The document describes how Capt Reggie Salomons, from Kent, died while trying to save his men. The letter from an eyewitness to Col Sir David Lionel Salomons, a wealthy baronet from Tunbridge Wells, explains how the colonel’s only son refused to leave a sinking ship.
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