A bound set of midshipman's logs kept by the future Admiral Sir Richard Henry Peirse

A bound set of midshipman's logs kept by the future Admiral Sir Richard Henry Peirse, K.C.B., K.B.E., M.V.O., D.L., between August 6th 1875 and October 15th 1879, in Her Majesty's Ships Minotaur, Charybdis and Juno; together with a Victorian Indian Army wallet or journal cover, in brown leather and bearing the badge of the 1st Light Cavalry in silver. [2]

Richard Henry Peirse was a highly accomplished naval officer who served with distinction in the Great War. He is celebrated for his deft prosecution of the Naval bombardment of Smyrna in 1915. He is also notable for having been the father of future Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, who's D.S.O. came as a result of his dashing role in the air attack on Dunkirk in the same year.