Postcard with a photographic portrait of James Young at Wahmbeck camp in Germany
Postcard with a photographic portrait of James Young in Marconi Company uniform.
James Young, born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1887, was a wireless operator on the merchant vessel GEORGIC (1895), Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., captured and sunk by the German raider MOEWE off Newfoundland on 10 December 1916. The portrait shows him during internment at the officers camp at Wahmbeck in Germany.
The postcard is unused, but the reverse is addressed to ‘Miss Laing, Market Place, Belford, Northumberland, England’.
James Young, born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1887, was a wireless operator on the merchant vessel GEORGIC (1895), Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., captured and sunk by the German raider MOEWE off Newfoundland on 10 December 1916. The portrait shows him during internment at the officers camp at Wahmbeck in Germany.
The postcard is unused, but the reverse is addressed to ‘Miss Laing, Market Place, Belford, Northumberland, England’.
Record details
| Item reference: | HSR/G/10/9; REG24/000158.9 |
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| Catalogue section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 1 postcard |
| Date made: | circa 1918 |
| Creator: | Young, James |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- First class certificate of proficiency in radiotelegraphy issued to James Young (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/1)
- Postcard with a circular photographic portrait of James Young (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/2)
- Postcard with a photographic portrait of James Young (centre) and two others in Marconi Company uniform, in a studio setting (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/3)
- Postcard with a signed photographic portrait of C.A. Turnbull [Charles Allan Turnbull] at Wahmbeck camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/4)
- Postcard with a signed photographic portrait of E.A. Godsell [Edward Alan Godsell] at Krefeld camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/5)
- Postcard with a signed photographic portrait of Geo P. Rivers [George Philip Rivers] at Wahmbeck camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/6)
- Postcard with a signed photographic portrait of A.D. Jones [Arthur Duncan Jones) at Wahmbeck camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/7)
- Postcard with a signed photographic portrait of ‘Holly’ [Hubert John Thomas Holland] at Wahmbeck camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/8)
- Postcard with a photographic portrait of James Young at Wahmbeck camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/9)
- Postcard with a photographic portrait of three officers at Wahmbeck camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/10)
- Postcard with a photographic portrait of a large group of Mercantile Marine officers at Wahmbeck camp in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/11)
- Postcard showing the Sommerfrische Rothhaus at Wahmbeck an der Weser in Germany (Manuscript) (HSR/G/10/12)
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