Vente 031 Autograph Auction TV Film Music Sport Historic Military Politics
Par Chaucer Auctions
26.8.22
Unit 1, Bowles Well Gardens, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 6PQ
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Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes signed 5x3 album page cutting. Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st ...

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Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes signed 5x3 album page cutting. Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO (4 October 1872 - 26 December 1945) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he served in a corvette operating from Zanzibar on slavery suppression missions. Early in the Boxer Rebellion, he led a mission to capture a flotilla of four Chinese destroyers moored to a wharf on the Peiho River. He was one of the first men to climb over the Peking walls, to break through to the besieged diplomatic legations and to free them. Good condition Est.