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Brand moved to Canada following secondment there in the Second World War.
 
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Revision as of 10:59, 27 April 2015

Captain Eric Sydney Brand, Royal Navy (14 May, 1896 – ?) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

A Conway cadet, Brand was in Greynvile Term at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth which commenced on 12 January, 1911. A term mate was Prince Albert, and his Term Lieutenant was Henry Spencer-Cooper. He entered the College 69th and passed out 12th.

Of Brand, Spencer-Cooper wrote:

A first rate lad, apt to be overlooked, as he is quiet, retiring & modest. Has plenty of go, is an excellent swimmer, and good at his work being most persevering. I expect to hear a good deal of him in the future, and that he will get on very quickly.

In his reminiscences of the Great War at sea, Brand wrote of one unusual incident;

Then on the afternoon of 27th. August a strange thing happened. The entire fleet was steaming quietly somewhere in the middle of the North Sea on a perfect day, flat calm and sunny when Iron Duke hoisted the "Disregard Admiral's Motions"(Blue Burgee) "Marlborough and Dominion close Iron Duke Flag Officers repair on board" So we duly sent our Admiral over to Tea in the seaboat and I suppose we all three were stopped for about 30-40 minutes, while the fleet was wandering along at 7 knots. I am pretty sure of my date because I think the Admiral met to be told of the impending advance into the Heligoland Bight next morning.[1]

Brand moved to Canada following secondment there in the Second World War.

Footnotes

  1. Brand, p. 5. Paper in the possession of the Liddle Collection, University of Leeds.

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