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Captain E Rollo Mainguy, OBE, RCN.
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Captain E Rollo Mainguy, OBE, RCN, of Duncan, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Commanding Officer of the first Canadian cruiser, HMCS UGANDA. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/524/951/large_000000.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_Mainguy http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vo1/.../85-92-eng.pdf
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First Canadian cruiser? Do you even read your cut and pastes?
HMCS Rainbow and HMCS Niobe were commissioned in 1910.
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....please take your complaint to the person who wrote the text at the Imperial War Museum...and have them correct it.
Thank you for your time Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. |
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The Mainguy Report
The original Mainguy Report on mutiny or "incidents" in the RCN post war.
http://www.navalandmilitarymuseum.or...df/mainguy.pdf Interesting read, especially his conclusions. |
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http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205159601 I don't need you to tell me what to do. I seem to recall that you needed some guidance to correct your ignorance as the following link clearly shows. http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ad.php?t=56087
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