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They'd had a free fight at Gib with the Ports battalion there; they cleared out the town of Lagos; and they'd fought a pitched battle with the dockyard-mateys at Devonport. So they'd done 'emselves well, but they didn't want any more military life for a bit." "And the strike?" "That ended, all right enough, when the strike-money came to an end. The pit-owners were furious.
During the dockers' strike I took up my morning paper and read Ben Tillett's speech, at the meeting the day before, to fifty thousand strikers on Tower Hill. "'I am going to ask you to join me in a prayer, Tillett said. 'Lord Devonport has contributed to the murder, by starvation, of your children, your women, and your men.
I am afraid that his temper got the better of him, and as the night drew on, unsolaced by a word from Froissart, and unrelieved by any literature more engrossing than old railway time-tables and hotel advertisements, he consigned to the Bottomless Pit the Chief of the Devonport Dockyard, the disgustingly virtuous and unenterprising Maynard, and even the harmless soul of his lately buried mother.
Before leaving London or England Miss Dymond wrote to her aunt in Devonport her only living relative in this country asking her as a great favour to forward an addressed letter to the prisoner, a fortnight after receipt. The aunt obeyed implicitly. This was the letter which fell like a thunderbolt on the prisoner on the night of December 3rd.
The tears began to flow, and I wept myself to sleep. More than once during my subsequent visits to Devonport have I stood on Mutton Cove pier gazing intently on groups of boys gathered thereon waiting for the ship's boat to bear them over to the 'Impregnable' with a view of joining the navy.
Moorshed?" "All right, if you're insured. Won't you come down?" I descended; Pyecroft, by a silent flank movement, possessing himself of all the provisions, which he bore to some hole forward. "Have you known Mr. Pyecroft long?" said my host. "Met him once, a year ago, at Devonport. What do you think of him?" "What do you think of him?"
A tramp with a big red mustache was detained in North Devon and a recruit arrested at Devonport. This man resembled the photograph and had joined a line regiment twenty-four hours after the disappearance of Redmayne. Both, however, could give a full account of themselves. Then Brendon prepared to return to Princetown. He wrote his intention to Mrs.
"Those battle-cruisers," went on Lord Jacquetot, addressing Dawson, "will go into dock at Devonport as soon as they arrive. They will be there forty-eight hours at least. They must be clean ships before they go through the hot tropical water if their speed is to be kept up. They have gun power, but power without speed is useless for the work which they have to do.
The summer of 1940 was very hot and many of us quickly browned, life was still unchallenging and boring, however there was plenty of entertainment available to us. At the Forum in Devonport I saw Balalaika with Ilona Massey and later The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.
"I heard last night of there being an appointment vacant at Devonport, and I was going to apply for it." "Any interest, eh?" "Not a scrap, Admiral," replied my father. "All my friends are dead or out of favour with the powers that be, I'm afraid now."
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