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Museum Ref No: F2c_0007Royal Marines landing craft between the Quays.
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Museum Ref No: F2d_0028Poole Quay 1948. Naval Flotilla Patrol Boats, boat 490 in front.
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Museum Ref No: F2d_0036Royal Navy firefighters outside the Guildhall, c.Nov. 1977.
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Museum Ref No: F2d_0005Group of seven officers from "H.M.S Poole", on board ship; World War Two 1939-1945
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Museum Ref No: Canmem6RussellRussell Memorial photographed in Canford Church, June 2015
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Thomas Macnamara Russell Esquire
Admiral of the White. late Commander in Chief in the North Seas.
He actively served his Country Seventy Years with ardour, bravery and ability and combated her enemies in Thirty six engagements. His most undaunted spirit of enterprize during the first revolutionary wars of America and France was unrivalled.
In1784 he was offered The Honour of Knighthood and at the close of his brilliant career he receieved the warmest acknowledgements from the Admiralty for his superior conduct as a Naval Chief
His successful blockade of the Texel during the threatened invasion of our shores was conducted on a new and admirable system of his own.
He was the first who had ever dared to anchor a Fleet there in the strongest gales of a Northern Winter and on an enemy’s lee shore.
Heligoland surrendered to him by which he secured invaluable advantages to his Country.
The Magnanimous intrepid and generous heart of a British Seaman was united in him with the urbanity of a Courtier.
He departed This Life on the 22nd Day of July 1824 in his 85th Year.
Elizabeth his Wife Died on the 2nd of March 1818 in her 66th Year
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Museum Ref No: F2d_0002Sailor Ernie Sampson in uniform, c.1939
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Museum Ref No: G9_0010Posed group of soldiers with rifles at Tidworth army camp; Percy Charles White in centre front row; July 1915.
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Museum Ref No: PEP 0506Memorial to 6906427 W O Sub Condr. N. V. C. Squibb of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who died on 8th May 1945, age 44. Poole Cemetery. Photograph P. E. Parker.
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Museum Ref No: CalPatRollsHenryV2pp323Commission to various groups in different counties to set up defence against an impending Spanish invasion. Nominates Humphrey Stafford, John Fauntleroy, Robert Lovell and Ralph Bussh in Dorset. 20th June 1421.
With thanks to the Calendar of Patent Rolls project of Professor G. R. Boynton and the University of Iowa. J. Hopkin.
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Museum Ref No: CalPatRollsHenryV1pp411Commission for an investigation into the defence of the isle of Purbeck and the surrounding area. Nominates Humphrey Stafford, John Moigne, William Tybenham, Robert Rempston, Robert Craford. 22nd Nov 1415.
With thanks to the Calendar of Patent Rolls project of Professor G. R. Boynton and the University of Iowa. J. Hopkin.
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