Album relating to the career of Captain E W E Fellowes, RN (3rd Baron Ailwyn, 1887-1976).

This is a maroon cloth covered album, with the spine sellotaped, containing 152 photographs and some ephemera glued in. The covers and many of the leaves are loose. This album relates to Captain Fellowes’s career while serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the cruiser HMS Highflyer (1898) on the East Indies Station 1920-1921. The album includes photographs of Ceylon, Zanzibar, Madras and Ootacamund and covers the visit of the Duke of Connaught to Madras in 1921. Sporting events include photographs of the Highflyer’s football team, cricket, tennis tournaments, hunting, pistol and rifle shooting. There are photographs of Lieutenant Rhoderick Robert McGrigor (later Admiral of the Fleet) whose papers the museum holds, and Major Edward Bamford, VC, DSO, RMLI. Fellowes has captioned the photographs and has identified, in some cases, not only senior officers but ratings and some civilians. Ephemera includes programmes, invitations and menus. The album encapsulates the agreeable life led by officers on foreign stations during the interwar years of the empire. Fellowes was promoted to Lieutenant Commander in 1917 - for a summary of his career see Album 569.

Object Details

ID: ALB0570
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 381 mm x 279 mm
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