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Nov. 21, 2008

I was recommended to your site whilst searching for information on my mother's uncle Charles Pottinger.  He was Captain of the Ashlea and sunk by the Graf Spee, which is well documented in your pages. Later in the war in 1945 he received the OBE but I have had less success searching for information. He was King's Harbourmaster in Alexandria Harbour and helped move a US tanker, which had caught fire, out of the harbour.  The tanker was the US Tanker Briar Creek and I can find nothing of it or the event. I wonder if anyone can help me?

Thank you,
Paul Jewell
Newton Abbot, Devon, England