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Lieutenant E. E. Bradford, R.N., H.M.S. Sandfly, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
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Lieutenant E. E. Bradford, R.N., H.M.S. Sandfly, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Hills and Saunders. 'The First Lord of the Admiralty, as was stated by Mr. G. O. Trevelyan, in the House of Commons, a few days ago, has promoted Sub-Lieutenant Edward Eden Bradford to the rank of Lieutenant, upon the special recommendation of Commodore Wilson, commanding her Majesty's naval force in the Australasian seas. This step is to denote the strong approbation by Government of Sub-Lieutenant Bradford's gallant conduct upon the occasion of the massacre of Lieutenant Bower and five seamen of H.M.S. Sandfly, a schooner employed in the Admiralty surveying work, who had landed on Noga, one of the Florida Islands, in the Western Pacific Ocean, about the middle of last October. One man only of Lieutenant Bower's party escaped, and got back to the vessel; but Sub-Lieutenant Bradford, left to act upon his own responsibility, with the few men under him, had the courage to stay and make successful efforts to recover the bodies of the slain. He also obtained full information leading to the punishment of their murderers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
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HRM25A42_256
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4,3Mo (234,8Ko) / 39,5cm x 47,0cm / 1121 x 1332 (72dpi)