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Earl Jellicoe and HMS Excellent Book of Remembrance

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Source: Copyright Amy Savage by kind permission of the Commanding Officer HMS Excellent

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Located in front of the north wall to the left of the Lord Jellicoe Memorial WMR 49293, St Barbara's Church, Quarter Deck Avenue, HMS Excellent, Whale Island, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 8DX, England

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SU 63859 02330

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Roll of honour or book of remembrance
WMR Reference Number: 49294
Description: Illuminated book of remembrance. Book housed in a glass-topped wooden display case with blue felt lining. An anchor, where the lower part takes the form of a scroll, is carved in relief within the display case. A HMS Excellent cap tally has been converted into a weighted bookmark and sits within the book.
Inscription: Book title page: THIS BOOK/ WAS PLACED HERE/ ON 31ST MAY 1937/ IN REMEMBRANCE/ OF LORD JELLICOE/ & AS AN ADDITION/ TO THIS MEMORIAL/ UPON ITS PAGES/ are recorded the names of those Gunnery/ Officers, Commissioned Gunners, Gunners,/ Gunners' Mates, Ordnance Artificers and/ Chief Armourers who have laid down their/ lives while serving in the Royal Navy since/ the end of the Great War, together with the/ names of those especially connected with/ H.M.S. Excellent whom it is desired to/ remember here. Jellicoe memorial page: EARL JELLICOE/ G.C.B. O.M. G.C.V.O. LL.D. D.C.L./ ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET/ Qualified in Gunnery 1884/ Commander-in-Chief Grand Fleet/ August 1914 – November 1916/ Died 20th November 1935 Second World War title page: H.M.S. EXCELLENT/ Book/ of/ Remembrance/ 1939-1945/ They shall not grow old,/ as we that are left grow old:/ Age shall not weary them, nor/ the years condemn./ At the going down of the sun/ and in the morning/ We will remember them.

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War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 313
Died: 313
Information shown: surname, initials, rank, date of death, unit, honours
Order of names: date of death, surname

Number Commemorated: 251
Died: 251
Information shown: initials, surname, honours, rank, year of death

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Served: 1
Information shown: title, surname, honours, rank, date of death

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