ROYALNAVY. THE WORLD WAR I ALBUM OF LIEUTENANT COMMANDER HEREWARD HOOK

ROYALNAVY. THE WORLD WAR I ALBUM OF LIEUTENANT COMMANDER HEREWARD HOOK, RN, DSO (1899-1971) containing approx 300 mounted photographs, many by Hook and captioned in ink and illustrating his naval career, in particular the ships in which he served, many candid scenes of life on board and informal portraits of officers and seamen, a royal inspection by George V, another by Admiral Jellicoe and many others, on leave and family life at Churt, Surrey, his service principally comprising HMS "Hogue", 2 Aug-22 Sept 1914 [date sunk] including a group of midshipmen including Hook, noting those drowned, a cutting of the published account he wrote of the attack, HMS "Orion", 25 Oct 1914 - 2 Sept 1917 including six probably unique photographs of the Battle of Jutland, HMS "Ribble", 3 Sept 1917 - 21 July 1918, HMS "Temeraire", 13 Aug - 18 Dec 1918 including the Squadron entry the Dardanelles, his eight months at Trinity College, Cambridge 1919 and HMS "Vesper", 27 August 1919 - 25 August 1920, on linen hinged stout card leaves, brown cloth worn, spine detached, 31 x 53cmWith an extraordinary but wonderfully apt name for a naval officer, Hereward Hook has left in this album a particularly interesting pictorial record of the Royal Navy. He was the 7th son of a moderately successful Victorian artist, Byran Hook (1856-1925) himself the son of the better known James Clarke Hook, RA (1819-1907) He was born at Churt, Surrey. The 15 year old cadet's first hand description of the fate of the "Hogue", one of three Cressy Class cruisers sunk in one action by a German U-Boat at the beginning of WWI, is a remarkably full and frank accont, especially for one so junior in the Service.