Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty

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Front: Caption: "What our Fathers and our Sons Bravely fought For. For Truth, Honour and Freedom" (ref. Cdn Patriotic and Heraldic Postcard Handbook Vo1. by Mike Smith). Sir David Beatty was born in Howbeck, Cheshire on 17 January 1871, was made Rear Admiral in 1910 and served as Winston Churchill's Naval Secretary from 1911-13, was appointed Commander of the Grand Fleet's Battlecruiser Squadron in 1913, a position he held at the outbreak of war in August 1914. Beatty's name is most associated with possibly the greatest naval action of all, at Jutland in May 1916, where his impetuosity in attacking the German High Fleet both inflicted and suffered major losses until the arrival of the Grand Fleet.(www.firstworldwar.com) Back: This post card illustrates the zealous spirit and unity and invincible courage pervading the Allied Anations to win the victory over German militarism, autocracy, falsehood and deceit, and e'em now we may hear the glad tidings of the glorious victory sounding the wide world o'er.