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Amateur British & Irish Yachtsmen Before World War One

Norman Simmons Carr
1877 - 19??

Norman Carr, born in Warwickshire, was primarily an illustrator. He often worked with other sailor/authors including E. Keble Chatterton and Edwin S. Turner. He occasionally wrote his own articles for The Yachting Monthly and may have contributed to other magazines as well. He was certainly contributing illustrations to The Yachting Monthly from the earliest days. Here's one of his early articles from 1908, Holland in London.

Carr was a tall man, known as the "Long Un" amongst his friends. He lived in Wandsworth with his sister Mabel for a number of years prior to the war.

Yachtsman (vainly hailing against the wind): "Is there a telegraph office here?"
Old Salt: "Plenty of water? Yes, sir, yes; plenty of water!"

When war broke out he quickly volunteered with the R.N.V.R., going in on 3 October, 1914 as a Sub-Lieutenant rising to Lieutenant with command of his own M.L. on 12 September, 1915 (posted in the Gazette on 18 January, 1916).

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