Sir (Horace) Geoffrey Norman
(1896-1992), Vice-AdmiralSitter in 1 portrait
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, January 1948
NPG x186873
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Clive Rogers
15 January 2020, 19:30
Sir Geoffrey Norman lived with his wife Noreen at 100 Acres near Wickham Hampshire near Portsmouth toward the end of their lives. They were both interested in oriental rugs. As a boy officer he served in Constantinople in the period 1919 - 1923. In the WWII period he may have said he served east of Suez.
Clive Rogers
19 January 2020, 13:21
To confirm my previous remarks there a two hour long archived interview and conversation divided into four segments with Sir Geoffrey Norman in the record of the Imperial War Museum. Here he describes and recalls his career, contemporaries and events including The Dardanelles, Black Sea and Constantinople being stationed in Scotland then Egypt and the Mediterranean in WWII .The interviewer or recorder was Neil Pilfold and recorded in 1985 for IWM. Nothing is said about oriental rugs which he is likely to have see on his travels and was the reason for my connection since I had an oriental carpet business in Portsmouth in 1970s and the retired Sir Geoffrey and Lady Noreen were my customers. At that time as I do today I also shared an interest in Istanbul with them.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008664
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