RNCVR Posted 15 February , 2020 Share Posted 15 February , 2020 Hello Kitchener's bugle, I would like to thank you for posting the photos of Admiral Jellicoe's dress uniform, orders & medals. Very nice to have thm displayed so they can be viewed by the public. Same applies to Admiral Nelson's dress tunic. It is in beautiful condition for its age! Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullerTurner Posted 17 February , 2020 Share Posted 17 February , 2020 On 19/11/2019 at 22:33, seaJane said: Chance unlucky ricochet is the present thinking (no way a sharpshooter could have seen through the smoke of battle). The bullet is at Windsor Castle, I believe - certainly in the Royal Collections. https://www.rct.uk/collection/61158/the-nelson-bullet NB re: the home of Jellicoe's uniform, there seems to be some confusion in the posts above between the National Maritime Museum (NMM - one of the Royal Museums Greenwich - RMG) and the National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth (NMRN - formerly the Royal Naval Museum). Well, while a French “marksman” might not have seen Nelson, he could have made a bloody good guess as to where the quarter deck on Victory was! However I suspect it wasn’t an individually aimed shot! Nor necessarily a ball fired from a musket. It might have been fired from a swivel gun in a batch marked “To whom it may concern”? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 18 February , 2020 Share Posted 18 February , 2020 13 hours ago, BullerTurner said: Well, while a French “marksman” might not have seen Nelson, he could have made a bloody good guess as to where the quarter deck on Victory was! However I suspect it wasn’t an individually aimed shot! Nor necessarily a ball fired from a musket. It might have been fired from a swivel gun in a batch marked “To whom it may concern”? I couldn't find these at the time: https://archive.org/details/JRNMSVOL91Images/page/n183/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/JRNMSVOL92Images/page/n31/mode/2up But we stray from the Great War, I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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