Image:Kenneth Dewar.jpg

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Official service photograph of Captain Kenneth Dewar, captain of HMS Royal Oak 1927-1928. Controversially court-martialled in the Royal Oak "Mutiny" trial of March-April 1928. The photograph dates from the 1920's (Dewar retired in 1929) and is therefore Crown Copyright, deemed to have expired 50 years after publication.

Public domain This artistic work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain

This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph created by the United Kingdom Government and taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It is a photograph or an engraving created by the United Kingdom Government and commercially published prior to 1958; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created by the United Kingdom Government prior to 1958.

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