Eric Sydney Brand

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

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

The 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.

Notes

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