Henry Lancelot Mawbey

When informed that one of his Sub-Lieutenants, E. S. Brand, had been requested to commission H.M.S. Valiant, Mawbey summoned the young man and after being told that he intended to take up the appointment, he told Brand: "I hope you have a bloody rotten time there and if you do, don't blame me, blame Forbes-Semphill!"¹

Notes

1. Brand, p. 8. Paper in the possession of the Liddle Collection, University of Leeds.