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Commander Charles Lamb DSO DSC Royal Navy Signed Naval Art
Commander Charles Lamb DSO DSC Royal Navy
Charles Lamb was born on 11 April 1914 in Bolton, Lancashire. He joined the merchant navy in 1930, and the Royal Naval Reserve in March 1933, serving aboard HMS Rodney, and competing on several occasions as a boxer. Commander Charles Lamb was to become a legend in the Royal Navy during World War II. He was one of the small bands of men who flew the slow cumbersome Swordfish bi-plane nicknamed 'Stringbags', all but declared obsolete before the war, but whose heroic actions changed the course of the war. Charles Lamb was the last to land on HMS Courageous before she was sunk in September 1939 and flew in the thick of the action, from mine-laying and U-boat hunting over northern Europe, harrying E-boats at Dunkirk, to being one of the two Swordfish Pathfinder pilots with 815 Squadron FAA at the Battle of Taranto. He joined 842 Naval Air Squadron then 781 Naval Air Squadron before serving on the carriers HMS Implacable and HMS Indefatigable from 1944 - 1945. Sadly, Charles Lamb died 28th May 1981.
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Clipped Signature - Charles Lamb. Served in the Royal Navy Reserve from 1933, aboard HMS Rodney, becoming a pilot of the near-obsolete Swordfish during World War Two. He was the last pilot to land on HMS Courageous before she was sunk, and was one of two Swordfish pilots at the Battle of Taranto. He later served in squadrons on HMS Implacable and HMS Indefatigable. He died in 1981. |
Swordfish Attack at Taranto by Robert Taylor. On November 11, 1940 a group of 21 slow, outdated Swordfish biplanes attacked and crippled the Italian Fleet in the heavily defended port of Taranto. One of the most daring raids of World War II captured in this print for posterity. |
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