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| 528 | July 1998 | 8 | Navy News |
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| Navy News Issue | Month / Year | Page | Index |
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| 528 | July 1998 | 8 | Navy News |
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| Survivor recalls victims BATTLE of Jutland veteran Jim Cusick still makes a point of remembering his old shipmates who didn't survive the encounter 82 years ago. Jim, who is now 102, still lives on his own and looks after himself in Yorkshire, doing his own cooking. He was already 20 years old when he was serving in HMS Valiant at Jutland, like Fred Morris manning a 6in gun. Every year his family try to get together to commemorate the day. His daughter, Dorothy King, said: "I usually make a cake and Dad cuts it in memory of all his shipmates who lost their lives that fateful day. "Up until last year he would wear his cap, with the HMS Valiant rib- bon, and salute all his dead com- rades." Mrs King said her father could still recall details of the battle, at which he sustained damage to his hearing. "He says: You just got on with the job - we never thought we would get out of it alive." He left the Navy at the end of the |
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