BRITISH DESTROYER'S 25TH BIRTHDAY. JULY 1944, ON BOARD HMS VERITY WHICH HAS JUST CELEBRATED HER 25TH BIRTHDAY. - "Captain's Defaulters and Requestmen Lay Aft". This order has just been piped on board HMS VERITY, and the picture shows her Commanding Officer, Lieut C Granville Cowley, RN, of Tubney, Abingdon, Nr Oxford, receiving requests, which may vary from leave, promotion, or welfare to permission to grow a full set of whiskers

---

Size: 2566px × 1948px
Photo credit: © piemags/ww2archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: