Evans of the Broke. A Biography of Admiral Lord Mountevans
( 'Evans of the BROKE ) ( Captain William MAKEIG-JONES ) POUND, Reginald
MAKEIG-JONES FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY
Published: Oxford University Press, 1963
Stock code: 51003
Price: £90.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 28 plates on 24; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly age-mottled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
Standard and painstaking life of one of the most famous naval officers of his generation. Second in command to Scott of the Antarctic, legendary destroyer skipper ('Evans of the BROKE') in the Great War, the King's emissary to Norway and 'Evans of the Blitz' during WWII. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF DOROTHY MAKEIG-JONES AND BEARS A LENGTHY HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. DOROTHY WAS WIFE TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM 'BILL' MAKEIG-JONES, COMMANDING OFFICER OF HMS COURAGEOUS, LOST WHEN HIS VESSEL WAS SUNK ON 17 SEPTEMBER 1939. MAKEIG-JONES WAS A CLOSE AND RESPECTED COLLEAGUE OF LORD MOUNTEVANS, SERVING AS THE LATTER'S FLAG CAPTAIN AND CHIEF OF STAFF AT SIMONSTOWN NAVAL BASE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF WWII. Following the sinking, Evans commissioned a set of medals struck at his own expense to be sent to Dorothy to replace those lost with her husband in his ship. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.