Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 01, 2002 at 04:19:30 from 194.112.53.223 user ACB.
He had been on the China station; either in a destroyer flotilla at Hong Kong (I seem to remember references to this?) or on one of the Yangtze River gunboats, when he was posted to Shotley. He sent a telegram from Berlin. He says, when he meets his offspring aboard the Goblin, that he has just spent twelve days sitting down.
I conclude that he must have travelled via the Trans-Siberian Railway. But would that have been possible for a British Naval Officer in the 1930's?