Uncatalogued: Osborne, Edward Oliver Brudenell Seymour, Vice-Admiral, 1883-1956

Box 1: Two diaries covering Osborne's service on HMS CONQUEROR, HMS VINDICTIVE and other warships during the First World War, covering the period 20 January 1915 to 19 June 1918. With loose material including naval signals, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, entertainment programmes and photographs. Also invitation cards for the presentation of the Freedom of the Borough of Dover to Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, 12 December 1918. Leather wallet displaying carte de visite photographs of Queen Victoria and other members of the Royal family. Mounted photograph by W.O. Kirk of West Cowes showing soldiers and dignitaries waiting for Prince Henry at Carisbrooke Castle, 1889.
Box 2: Scrapbook circa 1851-1915 relating to the family history of Osborne's wife Joan Marion Herbert Master. She was the daughter of Godfrey Cornewall Chester Master, and sister of Mary Augusta Grace Master, first wife of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Arthur Stopford (1879-1955).

Object Details

ID: MSS/77/078
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1851 -1918; 1860 -1918 1889 -1918 1915-1918 1918-01-01 - ?
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 2 boxes
Parts: Manuscript