Uncatalogued: Little, Charles James Colebrooke, Admiral Sir, 1882-1973 & Carey, Charles James, Captain, 1836-1891

Certificates and correspondence relating to examinations, appointments and honours, 1896-1945. Notebook with newscuttings from Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1898. Scrapbook containing photographs, theatre and music programmes, invitations, greetings cards, newspaper cuttings and signatures, mainly relating to the Far East, 1898-1901. Log book kept as midshipman on the P&O passenger/cargo liner JAPAN and HMS HERMIONE, 1 June 1898 to 31 July 1900. Journal kept as midshipman on HMS HERMIONE and HMS JUPITER, August 1900 to January 1902. Notebook on gunnery, 1902. Royal Christmas Card Wallet, 1914. Correspondence with the First Sea Lord and others on his appointment and duties as Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, 1942-1945. Term Roll booklets and correspondence regarding reunion dinners for the HMS Britannia January Term of 1897, held in 1948 and 1962. Correspondence and script for a BBC Home Service radio programme entitled 'Recollections of Submariners', broadcast in 1960. Correspondence relating to the National Maritime Museum, The Company of Veteran Motorists and Portsmouth Cathedral. Photographs of a portrait head by the sculptor C.W. Dyson-Smith. Two framed and glazed photographs: Group portrait of the British delegation to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington DC, November 1921. Portrait photograph and letter of thanks from Rear-Admiral Roger Roland Charles Backhouse, HMS IRON DUKE, 1927.

Four items relating to the naval career of Charles James Carey (see Box 2): Notebook containing details of crew, stations, rigging and other particulars of HMS QUEEN, 1860. Night Order Book and Watch, Station, Quarter and Fire Bills book for HMS CLIO, circa 1864-1866. Certificate of appointment as Commander, 1868.

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