Admiralty House commemorative cover
R 250
Number 14
175th Anniversary of SA Navy’s Admiralty House
99 of 6000
Rare series of signatures:
Vice Admiral HH Biermann SSA, SD, OBE, GCIH (Chief of SA Navy 1 December 1952 – 31 March 1972)
Vice Admiral AP ‘Dries’ Putter SSAS, SD, MMM (Chief of SA Navy 1 October 1982 – 30 June 1985 and 1 April 1989 – 30 June 1990)
Vice Admiral G Syndercombe SSA, SD, SOE, SM, MMM (Chief of SA Navy 1 July 1985 – 31 March 1989)
Vice Admiral J ‘Flam’ Johnson SSA, SM, DSC (Chief of SA Navy 1 April 1972 – 30 September 1977)
Vice Admiral JC Walters SD, SM, MMM (Chief of SA Navy 1 October 1977 – 30 January 1980)
There is a sixth signature, unconfirmed as that of Vice Admiral RA Edwards SSAS, SM, MMM (Chief of SA Navy 1 February 1980 – 30 September 1982.
Should this signature be that of Vice-Admiral Edwards it would mean this cover has the original signatures of all the Chiefs of the SA Navy for the period 1 December 1952 to 30 June 1990.
