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This picture was taken on the 5th or 6th November 1941 in Durban, South Africa. I believe the tall officer on the right of Jan Smuts is
Captain Tennant and my grandfather Harold Lang is the second officer behind the right shoulder of Jan Smuts, not the one
immediately
on Jan Smuts right shoulder. Unfortunately I do not know who any of the other officers or crew are.
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I do not have a date for this picture, but believe my grandfather to be the fourth officer from the right. Again I do not know who
the other officers are.
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Supplements to the London Gazette:
Admiralty
Whitehall
4th August 1921.
Acting Eng. Lieut. Harold Lang to be Eng. Lieut. 1st July 1920.
Admiralty
Whitehall
4th July 1933.
Engineer Lieutenant Commander to Engineer Commander.
Harold Lang D.S.M.
Admiralty
Whitehall
1st January 1941.
The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the Appointments to the Distinguished Service Order, and to approve the
awards, as shown below, for outstanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness, and for never failing to set an example of wholehearted
devotion to duty, with-out which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld:
Mention in Despatches
Engineer Commander Harold Lang DSM
Commander
Harold Lang died when HMS Repulse was sunk.
My mother was Pamela Cooper nee Lang. Sadly she passed away in May 2001.
Her father, (my Grandfather) was Engineer Commander Harold Lang, DSM onboard HMS Repulse.
I also have some other photographs but I believe these to be the best two. I have a framed newspaper cutting that shows the
Repulse and lists all the crew.
Kind regards
Graham Cooper
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