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"Where The 'Lads' Are Taught To Shoot" - Naval College Gunnery School c.1918
1918
"Mostly all [Navy personnel] had to attend this school, which I think even merchant seamen to be on active duty had to attend. All the Kent coast was well known for naval training." - Evelyn Muir (née Mobbs)
Inscription reads "Where the 'Lads'...
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"Mostly all [Navy personnel] had to attend this school, which I think even merchant seamen to be on active duty had to attend. All the Kent coast was well known for naval training." - Evelyn Muir (née Mobbs)
Inscription reads "Where the 'Lads' are taught to shoot".
Photograph from collection of Ernest Mobbs who served in both World Wars.
Donor number: 0127-023
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Kent, Chatham
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