Vice-Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer Steam shovel 7 January 1918

7 January 1918

A compound microscope manufactured by Hugh Powell (1799-1883) and Peter Lealand

Duc d'Orleans

30th May 1974

'The Nymph Salmacis'

Vice-Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer Steam shovel 7 January 1918Vice Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer, 1883. Commerell won his Victoria Cross during the Crimean War. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876 1883).