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Honoured by Strangers: The life of Captain Francis Cromie CB DSO RN 1882-1918 by Roy Bainton. Airlife, 2002.

Hard covers, 315 pages, b+w photos, dust wrapper. Very good condition, almost as new.

“Captain Francis Cromie became a submarine commander at the remarkably young age of 24. By this time he had already seen action in the Boxer Rebellion, received the China Medal and had been mentioned in dispatches.

In 1915 he was chosen to head a flotilla of submarines to attack German shipping in the Baltic Sea. He was decorated three times by the Czar of Russia and received the DSO.”

He was murdered in the British Embassy in 1918, a mystery that this book also examines.