Brass plate

Brass plate on a wooden mount commemorating the armistice with Turkey on 30th Oct 1918 signed on board HMS Agamemnon. Inscribed: ‘ARMISTICE WITH TURKEY / 1918 / AN ARMISTICE WITH TURKEY WAS SIGNED ON BOARD / H.M.S. “AGAMEMNON”, AT FORT MUDROS, LEMNOS / IN THE CAPTAIN’S AFTER CABIN, AT 8.45 P.M. / GREENWICH TIME 30TH OCT. 1918 / BY / VICE-ADMIRAL THE HONOURABLE SIR SOMERSET / ARTHUR GOUGH-CALTHORPE K.C.B. C.V.O. / BRITISH C.IN. C. MEDITERRANEAN STATION / ACTING UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE BRITISH / GOVERNMENT IN AGREEMENT WITH THEIR ALLIES, / AND / H.E. RAOUF BEY, TURKISH MINISTER OF MARINE. / H.E. RECHAD HIKMET BEY, TURKISH UNDER-/SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, / LT COLONEL SAADULLAH BEY, / TURKISH GENERAL STAFF / ACTING UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE TURKISH / GOVERNMENT / DURING THE CONFERENCES WHICH WERE HELD IN / THE CAPTAIN’S FORE CABIN COMMENCING 27TH / OCT. 1918. THE BRITISH C. IN C. FLEW HIS / FLAG IN “H.M.S. AGAMEMNON” AND THE / TURKISH DELAGATES LIVED ON BOARD THAT SHIP’[plate on frame] ‘ H.M.S. AGAMEMNON, CAPTAIN F.S. LITCHFIELD-SPEER C.M.G. D.S.O. R.N. / WAS PAID OFF A CHATHAM ON 20TH MARCH 1919. ' The engraving has been done on board or in the dockyards.

Object Details

ID: REL0199
Collection: Relics
Type: Brass plate
Display location: Not on display
Events: World War I: Armistice of Mudros, 1918; World War I, 1914-1918
Vessels: Agamemnon (1906)
Date made: 1918; 1919
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Royal United Service Institution Collection
Measurements: Overall: 45 mm x 320 mm x 440 mm