THE COURAGEOUS
ADDITIONS TO LIST OF SURVIVORS MESSAGE FROM FRENCH NAVY. EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY & COMRADESHIP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON. September 19. Additional survivors from the Courageous comprise 25 officers and 230 ratings. The list of known survivors now totals seventy officers and 611 ratings. The Chief of the French Naval Staff telegraphed to Mr Winston Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty) that the French Navy has learned of the glorious end of the Courageous and feels how alive and real are the links binding it to the British Navy. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS SAVED NEW ZEALAND SERVICE RECALLED. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON. September 19. The survivors from the Courageous include Captain C. F. Phillips, who was a lieutenant of Marines on the Australian tour. He later served in the New Zealand Navy and married a New Zealander. U BOAT ESCAPE REPORTED IN GERMANY. (Received This Day. 11.0 a.m.) BERLIN. September 19. The High Command states that a U boat reported that it stand the Courageous, thus showing that it escaped the British depth bombs. „
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1939, Page 5
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