HMS Belfast Anniv of Launching signed  Sir Morgan-Giles, & Ad J Black Falklands

17 Mar 08 London HMS Belfast 70^th Anniversary  of Launching 17^th March 1938.

Personally Signed by Admiral Sir Jeremy Black, Commanded HMS Invincible in the Falkland Conflict  and was the Force Anti Air Warfare Commander in which his Job was to control all the Sea Harriers both from HMS Invincible and HMS Hermes to fight the air threat. .

signed by Rear Admiral Morgan Giles DSO OBE GM Senior Naval Officer VIS 1944

Morgan-Giles joined the China Fleet as a midshipman at 18 in 1932, serving on a variety of ships, including Yangtze river patrol boats. He first sailed in the training cruiser HMS Frobisher to the West Indies and the Baltic.  He was then appointed to the Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager before serving in HMS Cumberland, HMS Suffolk  and HMS Cornwall on  the China Station before returning home to join the torpedo school at HMS Vernon. He was promoted to Torpedo Specialist in 1938.

During the Second World War, Morgan-Giles served on HMS Arethusa during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940,HMS Emerald escorting Atlantic convoys, and took part in the Battle of Oran. In 1941, he was sent to the Suez Canel, where he was in charge of the anti-magnetic mine campaign. In April of that year, he acted as a liaison with the RAF using Wellington bombers as torpedo bombers. During his time with 201 Group RAF at Dekheila, he survived three serious aeroplane crashes (one of which he was the sole survivor). Following a period of staff training at the Royal Navel College Greenwich, Morgan-Giles was then send to the Far East as Staff Officer Operations of Force W. There he accepted the Japanese surrender of Thailand. Details enclosed. Certified Copy of no 4 of 10. 

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