H.M.S Comet to R.C.N 1934

[goggy]

Annie,after taking my medication!This looks like the one,my next younger brother must be a little younger than I calculated.Numerically disadvantaged,that's me,now to settle down and do some more scribing!!
Great job Annie.
Regards,Goggy.

[liverpool annie]

So Goggy - What are you saying ? -

I can stop looking  Am I done?

no going on to the handsome teenager??

Talk to you soon my friend

Annie

[goggy]

Hi Annie,I'm blushing, prettily,I hope!!!My stock of autographed photo's has long run out,tape record's of personal interviews+song's from barrack,s pub's,and ocean going merchant seamen,all given away.
BUT!One of these day's I'll get off me tail and try this new fangled jpg or gif thingy and,just you wait.
Yesterday can't be soon enough!!
        Take care,'R'kid,Goggy
       

[liverpool annie]

Goggy!

I was looking for a soldier in Mesopotamia and I came across this - thought of you ONLY because of HMS Comet...... !knowing you - thought you'd be interested!!

http://www.victoriacross.co.uk/descrip_c.html

COOKSON, Edgar Christopher. (reg No. 249).
Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy.
London Gazetted on 21st January 1916.
Born on 13th December 1883 at Tranmere, Cheshire.
Died on 28th September 1915 near Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia. (killed in action).
Memorial at grave in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq and on Chatham Naval Memorial.
Digest of Citation reads:
On 28th September 1915 during the advance on Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, HMS Comet commanded by Lieutenant Commander Cookson, and other armed vessels, were ordered, if possible, to destroy an obstruction which had been placed across the river by the Turks. When they approached, very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire was opened on them, and an attempt to sink the centre dhow by gunfire having failed Lieutenant Commander Cookson ran Comet alongside and he himself jumped on the dhow with an axe and tried to cut the cables connecting it with the other two craft forming the obstruction. He was shot several times and Died on within a few minutes.
Additional information: He also held the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).

Annie

[goggy]

Liverpool Annie!
Nice one kiddo,didn't know the 'Comet' was that old,and the Canuck's bought it for use in the sea's around Canada?
Brave boy's,bet it was only the coat's of paint kept the water out!!
It's not the pill's I take that are the problem,it's those I drop+cant find 'cos my dog's snaffled 'em!!
             Lost in Space,Goggy.