Portsmouth Navy Week: “Britain’s Best Bobsworth” Opens on Saturday: Portsmouth Navy Week, 1937, will be opened on Saturday from the bows of the historic Victory by the First Lord of the Admiralty (the Right Hon. A. Duff Cooper), and for seven whole days the Navy will be at home to the people they affectionately refer to as “the owners” … (review of event includes) … I think Paymaster Captain H. C. Pinsent, Navy Week’s indefatigable General Secretary will forgive me if I let you in on a secret. He wants to see the figures pass the half million mark before he finishes with it. Well, although he’s far from finished with it yet, last year’s figures were 433,239, and considerably less of an increase than last year’s would give him this ambition … (continues) …
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GRO0391 India: Harold Charles Frank Pinsent: 1884 – 1968