Crew members on the Free French Force ship Le Triomphant, a large destroyer of Le Fantasque ...

Accession Number	P05103.001
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker	Unknown
Place made	Algeria
Date made	March 1944
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Crew members on the Free French Force ship Le Triomphant, a large destroyer of Le Fantasque class, are presented to the leader of Free French Forces, General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (far left) while in port at Algiers. Identified crew members, from left to right facing General de Gaulle: Lieutenant Derek Percival Scales, Liaison Officer (RANVR, appointed to RN); D/SR615 Signalman George Horace Myall (RN); 25903 (C/JX223207) Signalman William Cutt Rendall (RN, on loan to RAN); PA1104 Telegraphist Ashmead Bartlett Croft (RAN) and 26092 (D/JX222003) Coder Harry Underwood (RN, on loan to RAN). Scales was fluent in the French language and post war had an academic career which culminated in his appointment as Chair of French Language and Literature at the Australian National University, a position he held until his retirement in 1983, after which he was appointed Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University.