IWM (A 7258)

CDR Houtsmuller, captain of the Isaac Sweers (left by one of the ship’s torpedo turnstiles) with RADM Irvine Gordon Glennie, Rear Admiral (Destroyers, Mediterranean Fleet). Glennie, who started the war commanding HMS Hood but had been kicked upstairs before she met Bismarck, retired as a full admiral in 1947, capping 42 years in uniform. By Zimmerman. IWM (A 7258)

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