Contents: a family history of the Sloan family; documents from James Herbert Sloan (1904-1972), a Marine Engineer for Head Line, including: a portrait photograph in navy uniform; a Continuous Certificate of Discharge from 1938-44; old photographs annotated on the back, including, ‘One of the Hundreds of windmills on Ireland’, soldiers at a Greek village, battleships and U-boats, a navy member’s family, navy crew smoking, a life ring of the vessel ‘Mashobra’, “Motor Ambulance and Lorries at Alexandria,” ‘small heaps’ of cargo at a harbour,’ Australians boarding a ship, “H.M.S. Doris” a blank postcard; a postcard ‘to my friend’ (1917); coloured photographs of a Sloan family member with Indian aristocrats; a King’s Order to include James Herbert Sloan in The London Gazette (1940); a note of medal award to James Herbert Sloan (1950); British Seaman's Identity Card of James Herbert Sloan; a certificate of competency as master of a foreign-going steamship issued by the Board of Trade (1930); a testimony of apprenticeship of Sloan on a voyage to New Zealand and back (1923); an Ordinary Apprentice’s Indenture annotated on the back (1920); a birth certificate of James Herbert Sloan; a newspaper clipping containing a letter to John Blennerhassett in Jamaica from Pat (Mar. 1940); a Daily Sketch article from April 4th, 1941 ‘Ship Brings Down Raider With Mast’; miscellaneous newspaper from 1941.
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