PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY ELEVEN Hugh D. Whiting The photographs appearing in this gallery come from the records of Chief Petty Officer Hugh D. Whiting as he served aboard HMS Falcon and HMS Bee from 1931 to 1933. The order in which the photographs appear in each section of the gallery is almost identical to that of the album in which the photographs were found and notations made by P.O. Whiting are included above each photograph. His service record indicates that he was on both HMS Falcon and HMS Bee so the photographs seen are probably derived from his service upon both of these ships. Hugh Whiting (widely known as "Tom") was born in 1896 in Islington, London and joined the navy at age 15. At the outset of WWI he was assigned to the Royal Naval Division and was interned in Holland following the withdrawal from Antwerp (for more information click here). Among other ships, P.O. Whiting served aboard HMS Royal Oak 1919-20, HMS Bluebell 1921-24 (Far East), HMS Royal Sovereign 1925-27 (Mediterranean) and was posted 1931-33 to China, on HMS Bee and HMS Falcon. In WWII he was a survivor from the Jervis Bay, sunk by the Admiral Scheer, Nov. 5th 1940, in protection of of Convoy HX 84 (for more information click here). He finally retired from Service in 1945. I am immensely grateful to Dr. Donald Whiting for permitting his Father's photographs to be posted on the site. Requests to use these photographs are welcome, but publication (by any means) may only occur with prior approval of the Whiting family. Any inquires regarding these photographs should be made to Donald Whiting, care of the site webmaster. All of the images below appear in both high resolution and low resolution formats. Viewers of the site who connect to the internet via a telephone modem should probably view the images in low resolution so that download times do not become prohibitive. PHOTOGRAPHS 1. HMS Falcon and crew one Low Res High Res 2. HMS Falcon and crew two Low Res High Res 3. HMS Falcon and views of Yangtse one Low Res High Res 4. HMS Falcon and views of Yangtse two Low Res High Res 5. HMS Falcon and views of Yangtse three Low Res High Res 6. HMS Falcon and views of Yangtse four Low Res High Res 7. HMS Falcon crew Low Res High Res 8. People and places one Low Res High Res 9. People and places two Low Res High Res 10. People and places three Low Res High Res 11. People and places four Low Res High Res 12. People and places five Low Res High Res 13. People and places six Low Res High Res 14. People and places seven Low Res High Res 15. People and places eight Low Res High Res 16. Gorges from Ichang to Chungking Low Res High Res 17. Gorges from Ichang to Chungking Low Res High Res 18. Gorges from Ichang to Wanhsien Low Res High Res

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