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ADMIRALTY.
REFERENCE SHEET.
g, rom The Head of Military Branch
To The First Lord
THE
CW
OFFICERS
MERCHANT
NAVY
FEDERATION LTD.
Representing Navigating and Engineer Officers of the British Merchant Navy.
MEMBER OF
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THE NATIONAL
MARITIME BOARD
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be addressed to the
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General Secretary.
Branch Offices in Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff, Southampton
Representatives in all principal Ports at Home and Abroad
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June 1940.
he Federation is governed by a epresentative Council of
The Secretary,
The Admiralty,
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Ls avigating and Engineer Officers,
S. W.
ected by its Constituent
Associations.
16JUNE4A
Sir,
PRESIDENT
re: Captain G. Mallory of REGIST
VICE-ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD
HEATON ELLIS, K.B.E., C.B., M.V.O.
S.S. "MALINES".
GENERAL MANAGER:
WILLIAM H. COOMBS
We are given to understand that the Masters of
(MASTER MARINER)
the ships engaged in the Dunkirk evacuation have been asked to report on services of special merit rendered
Federated Organisations:
by their officers and crews.
UNITED KINGDOM.
We are quite certain that Masters will refrain
Navigators & Engineer Officers Union.
Navigators 8 General Insurance Co., Ltd.
from making any reference to their own particular
Radio Officers Union.
service, and it is for this reason that we venture
AUSTRALIA.
to inform you that we have been asked by some of the
Merchant Service Guild of Australasia.
officers concerned, to venture to direct your
CHINA AND HONG KONG.
attention to the work of Captain Mallory, Master of
China Coast Officers Guild.
the S.S. "MALINES" owned by the L.N.E.R.
Marine Engineers Guild of China.
NEW ZEALAND.
You will be aware that he answered distress
New Zealand Merchant Service Guild.
signals from H.M.S. "GRAFTON" and we understand he
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
put his ship alongside the "GRAFTON" and was
Straits Merchant Service Guild.
instrumental in saving approximately 1000 lives and subsequently picked up survivors from H.M.S. "WAKEFUL"
Canadian Merchant CANADA. Service Guild.
I understand that the officers of his ship,
Parliamentary Committee:
both deck and engine-room officers, were greatly immodore The Rt. Hon, The Earl Howe, impressed by the fine seamanship and cool courage
Lord Churston.
[P.C., C.B.R., R.N.V.R.
ement leut Davies, Esq., K.C., shown by their Captain.
P. -Commdr. R.T.H. Fletcher, M.P. R.N., M.P.
dmiralof the Bart., Fleet, Sir Roger J.B. Keyes,
Herbert, Esq., M.P.
We trust that it will be possible for Captain
Mallory's name to be considered if awards are in ommander -Col, Stephen King-Hall, M.P., M.P. etc.
G.C.B., K.C.V.O.
contemplation.
J. T. C, Moore-Brabazon, R.N., leut.-Col. M. Pickthorn, Esq., M M.P. C.,
M.P
D, Smiles, M.A.,
C.I.E., D.S. O., M.P.