ILEA000636742: Admiral Sir Tom Phillips

Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival

Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival (1887 - 1966) who was appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) Malaya in April 1941. He was forced to surrender both Malaya and Singapore to the Japanese forces. Date: December 1941

General Sir Ian Hamilton, British army officer

General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947), British army officer, best known for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Dardanelles during the Battle of Gallipoli. He also served in the First and Second Boer Wars, the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Mahdist War, and the Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1914-1918

Japanese Vice-Admiral Togo and Signal men

Japanese Vice-Admiral Togo and Signal men. Heihachiro, Marquis Togo (1838 - 1934) - Japanese naval commander whose defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima (in May 1905 - interestingly, four months prior to this card being sent!) - described as the greatest naval victory since Trafalgar. Date: 1905

Yakov Zhilinski, Chief of Staff of the Imperial Russian Army

Yakov Zhilinski (Zhilinskiy) (18531918), Chief of Staff of the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, Governor-General of Warsaw, and Chief of Staff of all Russian forces until 1914. Thereafter a field commander during the first year of World War I until he was relieved of command. Date: circa 1905

General Sir Ian Hamilton, British army officer, and others

General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947), British army officer, best known for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Dardanelles during the Battle of Gallipoli. He also served in the First and Second Boer Wars, the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Mahdist War, and the Russo-Japanese War. Seen here with General Braithwaite, his Chief of Staff, and Captain F Maitland, rowing ashore in a warship's dinghy. Date: circa 1915

ADMIRAL TOGO

HEICHAHIRO, MARQUIS TOGO Japanese naval commander whose defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima has been described as the greatest naval victory since Trafalgar. Date: 1846 - 1934

Admiral Makarov at Constantinople

Stepan Osipovich Makarov (1848-1904) Russian admiral in command of the Pacific fleet at beginning of Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Killed when his flagship 'Petropavlosk' struck a mine and sank in third month of the war. Pictured here at Constantinople on the Bosphorus in a rowing boat flying the flag of the Imperial Russian Navy. Date: circa 1903

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro (18481934) - a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. Termed by Western journalists as "the Nelson of the East". Date: circa 1930

A new peer: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rossyln Wemyss

Sir Rossyln Wemyss, who recently relinquished the post of First Lord of the Sea, is to be made a Baron. Date: November 1919

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro, Japanese Naval Hero

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro (18481934) - a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. Termed by Western journalists as "the Nelson of the East". Date: circa 1908

Admiral Sir Tom Phillips

Admiral Sir Tom Phillips (1888 - 1941), who was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Fleet on 1 December 1941. He subsequently commanded 'Force Z' during the Japanese invasion of Malaya. He went down with his flagship H.M.S. Prince of Wales during the battle. Date: December 1941

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