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On board HMS SUFFOLK whilst on patrol, here watching through a pair of binoculars is Able Seaman Alfred R Newall, a hostilities only sailor from Euston House, London. He was the first man to sight the BISMARCK as she loomed out of the mist with the cruiser PRINCE EUGEN.
Source

IWM collection database, photo no.: A4217
Date

1941
Author

Coote, R G G (Lt)Royal Navy official photographer
Permission
(Reusing this image)

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