THE man in the front is Tommy Turley from Bream ... and, by the way, the man in the centre is King George V.
This rare picture was among a lot entitled British Royal Yachts which was recently sold by Dominic Winter Book Auctions in Swindon for £400.
Tommy, whose sister Mrs Ella Dawe still lives in Bream, was selected to become a member of the crew of the Royal Yacht in the 1930s.
He had joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor in 1926. At the outbreak of war he volunteered as a naval commando and embarked on a remarkable series of exploits being captured – and escaping – three times before ending up back in Bream.
A man of mischief, he was always in scrapes. The Admiralty planned a reception to decorate Tommy for his heroism but he never made it – he celebrated his escapes a little over-enthusiastically the night before and ended up in a police cell!
Tommy's luck finally ran out in December 1941 when his ship HMS Neptune hit a mine off the Libyan coast and sunk.
His story is vividly told in 'Retrieving Wenty's Sturty Bird' written by Ian Hendy to raise funds towards the cost of restoring Bream Cenotaph.