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Having served in an Officers ' Training Corps I was given a commission . ... Eagerly I questioned Commander Taprell Dor- ling , R.N. , our officer instructor , then a well - known writer of sea stories under the pen - name of ' Taffrail ...
Having served in an Officers ' Training Corps I was given a commission . ... Eagerly I questioned Commander Taprell Dor- ling , R.N. , our officer instructor , then a well - known writer of sea stories under the pen - name of ' Taffrail ...
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As an extra member of the comple- ment I was given job as super- numerary officer of the watch , which consisted mainly in walking up and down the quarter - deck , lining up to salute officers coming on board and telling boy seamen to ...
As an extra member of the comple- ment I was given job as super- numerary officer of the watch , which consisted mainly in walking up and down the quarter - deck , lining up to salute officers coming on board and telling boy seamen to ...
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He saw the District Officer , not the secretariat- wallah , as the ideal civil servant , and himself spent all the time he could in a district . He abhorred , and fought to the last , corruption , nepotism and the habit of short ...
He saw the District Officer , not the secretariat- wallah , as the ideal civil servant , and himself spent all the time he could in a district . He abhorred , and fought to the last , corruption , nepotism and the habit of short ...
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Valley of the Shadow Anthony French | 1 |
Indian Sketches | 13 |
Western Ocean L W J Fifield | 24 |
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| Title | Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 309 Blackwood's Magazine |
| Publisher | William Blackwood, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Mar 2022 |
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