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Title: Find to be identified please! Post by: musicman19 on August 31, 2010, 09:58:57 AM Hi All,
I found this "London Mail Holiday Club" badge or pendant etc in Portskewett, nr Caldicott, Gwent. Does anybody know what it is and does anybody know any information about the London Mail Holiday Club? Please find attached two photographs. Any information would be greatfu.. Stuart :) Title: Re: Find to be identified please! Post by: jonnyd on August 31, 2010, 04:09:17 PM The only link i can find for the london mail holiday club 1918 .is the did trip on ships around the world ..here is one bit of info i found out ...the Leinster was one of the ship they used :)
hope this is of some help on being able to find out more info on you badge or fob Robert Bassett by: Philip Lecane, author of "Torpedoed! The R.M.S. Leinster Disaster" The night before the sinking, Lieutenant Robert Bassett from Cork and Major Charles Duggan from Hampshire stayed in Rosse's Hotel, Parkgate Street,London mail Holiday club,Dublin. Both were doctors in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Also stayting in the hotel was Lieutenant Halse of the New Zealand Army, who had been hospitalised in Ireland for an injured shoulder. To keep the shoulder in place he had his left arm clamped into an iron frame. The three men boarded the R.M.S. Leinster together. The Irish Times of 12 October 1918 said that after the first torpedo struck, Bassett placed a lifebelt around Halse's neck. The three men jumped overboard and became seperated. Halse could not swim, but he managed to stay afloat until a lifeboat came along full with people. For nearly three quarters of an hour Halse clung to the lifebaot with his uninjured hand. Becoming exhausted, he told the seamen in charge of the boat that he could no longer hold on. Ropes were fastened around him and he was hauled into the boat. He suffered such agony with his injured arm that he became unconscious. He was treated in the Red Cross Hospital at Dublin Castle. An account by Major Louis Daly of the Leinster Regiment said that Halse was accompanied by his servant, who kept him afloat until they were picked up. While the injured Halse survived, unfortunately Lieutenant Robert Bassett (28) and Major Charles Duggan (51) were lost. Bassett's body was recovered and buried in Grave H.10.31 in St. Finbarr's Cemetery, Cork. Duggan's body was not recovered. He is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton. On 10 October 2003, on the 85th anniversary of the sinking, Basset's grand niece Marilynn Hearn, was among a group of relatives who sailed to the site of the Leinster sinking aboard the Irish naval vessel L.E. Aoife. Title: Re: Find to be identified please! Post by: The Doc on August 31, 2010, 05:13:36 PM I was trying to find info about this before when this one was submitted to UKDFD.
Couldn't find much unfortunately. It is listed here but doesn't give any further info other than what it says on it: http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=20880&cat=173 (http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=20880&cat=173) |