History Out There Harold Peacock

William was a veteran of ships that went to the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. He sailed with Lord Roberts of Kandahar, the Victoria Cross recipient who was the most famous military commander of his time. William was twice shipwrecked, once off the coast of Newfoundland and once off England. But his prowess as the family storyteller was threatened when his daughter Jane Lancaster married William Spendelove in 1899 and a Tiger King joined the family.

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