Private Papers of Captain T E Podger RN

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[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Official records of his naval career 1920-1957 including his Midshipman's journal kept whilst seerving aboard HMS DIOMEDE and HMS HAWKINS 1924-1926, and files covering his command of HMS KENYA during the Korean War 1951-1952, HMS SHEFFIELD 1954-1956 and the UK salvage unit after the Suez Crisis 1956-1957.

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Catalogued by: RWR

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Category: Private papers
Related period: Interwar (content), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content)
Creator: Podger, Theodore
Crown
Dimensions: whole: 1
Catalogue number: Documents.18271

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