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Painting HMS London 1914 Escorting British Expedition Force WW1 By Frank W Wood

Career of Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Walter Anstice, K.C.B. (5 May, 1899 – 30 August, 1979) served in the Royal Navy. He was the son of Major J. C. A. Anstice. At age 15 he left the Training Establishment in August 1914 from Dartmouth to serve as midshipman the battleship London until ordered home on 29 August, 1916. He had been slightly wounded in the head by shrapnel at the Dardanelles on 30 April, 1915. Anstice was appointed to Renown on 25 September 1916. On 25 July, 1917 he was directed to take a brief course (two days?) in Torpedo Control at H.M.S. Vernon before being appointed to Achates, where he served through the end of the war. Anstice was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 February, 1920. Anstice became an aviator in 1924. Anstice was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Comma.