Cyril Coltart RN

My Uncle Cyril was a very respected naval commander with years in the submarine service in both World Wars. Because I now find that the National Maritime Museum Greenwich has an album from him I have used Facebook to pull together many of the leads and I clip in this post below. Hopefully it will work for you. Buried in it is a photo of Uncle Cyril wildfowling in Iceland in 1941 from HMS Hecla!

Robert Forsythe

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Today is for Uncle Cyril: Cyril Coltart RN. Why? Because I wised up to http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/538848.html

 

and then found many internet references including http://royalnavymemories.co.uk/hms-glasgow-captains/comment-page-1/#comment-13558

 

(second Captain of HMS Glasgow in 1938. Dotted around our Military Matters album here and also the Railway Philately page are other links to him.

Captain C. G. B. Coltart RN - National Maritime Museum

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  Robert Forsythe see https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=143883672352063&set=a.143883639018733.37805.100001912940850&type=3&theater

  

  Military Matters

  This is my Uncle Cyril, husband of my father's only sibling. He was a notable su...See more

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  Robert Forsythe and http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/hecla.html

   

  

  HMS Hecla, destroyer depot ship, at Iceland (1941) and Simonstown (1942), South Africa

   

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  HMS Hecla from launch to Havelfjord (1940-1), mining and repair at Simonstown.

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  Robert Forsythe and http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersC2.html#Coltart_CGB

   

  Coltart - Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945  --  C

   

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  Robert Forsythe and https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=452570058150088&set=a.143883639018733.37805.100001912940850&type=3&theater

  

  Military Matters

  Mooch around here and you will find references to Uncle Cyril. He must have died...See more

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  Robert Forsythe and https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=461812663916037&set=pb.289650821132223.-2207520000.1377767379.&type=3&theater

  

  Materials from The Forsythe Collection

  A Beyer Garratt features on this 1953 Rhodes Centenary 1/- mailed at the time to my Uncle Cyril. Now Zimbabwe.

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  by: Railway Philately

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  Robert Forsythe and (importantly) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=agxjTONldMEC&pg=PT52&lpg=PT52&dq=cyril+coltart+submarine&source=bl&ots=66jpCUzwyV&sig=iqvG_-XSWsW-LPaLapJcDZ693zM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LeUcUpGQLOil0AW2q4CwCQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Coltart&f=false

   

  

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  Robert Forsythe and also linked to http://www.forsythe.demon.co.uk/collections.htm

   

  

  Collections page - transport and industrial heritage - history & consultancy

   

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  Robert Forsythe scroll down far enough in Hecla and there is an Uncle Cyril photo http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/webimages/SH-002-UncleCyril.jpg

   

  . Now get this he had gone shootin ""Uncle Cyril", Capt C.G.B. Coltart RN, being piped aboard HMS Hecla by his fellow officers dressed as ratings after a day's shootin' at Havelfjord in 1941". Iceland explains.

  

  

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  Robert Forsythe the mention in here is not Uncle Cyril http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/ships/id198.html

   

  but I think is his nephew? Coltart, Richard Evelyn also in Unit Histories next below Cyril

  

  Thetis

   

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  Robert Forsythe My aunt launches a submarine http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19390707-1.2.124.aspx

   

  

  Newspaper Article - Third Of Four New Submarines

   

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