Official service photograph of Captain Kenneth Dewar, captain of HMS Royal Oak 1927-1928. Controversially court-martialled in the Royal Oak "Mutiny" trial of March-April 1928.
The photograph dates from the 1920's (Dewar retired in 1929) and is therefore Crown Copyright, deemed to have expired 50 years after publication.
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Service photograph of Captain Kenneth Dewar, captain of HMS ''Royal Oak'' 1927-1928. Controversially court-martialled in the Royal Oak "Mutiny" trial of March-April 1928. The photograph dates from the 1920's (Dewar retired in 1929) and is therefore over