Over 206,000 at Our Navy Week: … The Commander in Chief of the port (Admiral Sir William Fisher) … thanked Commodore L. E. Holland, who was at the head of the Committee, Paymaster Captain H. C. Pinsent, the Secretary, and his assistant Lieutenant Commander A. L. Besant, Rear Admiral Geoffrey Layton (Director of Personal Services), Engineer Rear Admiral T. Gurnell, who had built the scale model of the Dockyard which was on view at Waterloo Station, the Press and the B.B.C., the police of the Dockyard who had been perfectly admirable, and many others …
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GRO0391 India: Harold Charles Frank Pinsent: 1884 – 1968