HMS Renown cap tally

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Name/Title

HMS Renown cap tally

Entry/Object ID

2025.1002.37

Description

Cap Tally for H.M.S. Renown received by members of the ship that came aboard after Texas acted as an emergency hospital ship in Greenland in February 1942.

Context

Howard F. Flood Jr. enlisted in the Naval Reserves with parent permission on February 14, 1941, and went through basic training from July 5 to August 3. He went to additional schooling through September 3, 1941. His first assignment was on Battleship Texas. HMS Renown was the lead ship of her class of battlecruiser in the Royal Navy. She was commissioned from September 20, 1916, to 1948. She was sold for scrap on March 19, 1948.

Collection

Collection (Howard F. Flood Jr.), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Uniform, Military

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Uniform

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Status Symbols

Nomenclature Class

Personal Symbols

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects