Ghosts of Jutland, a commemorative exhibition onboard HMS Belfast, a branch of the Imperial War Museum and London’s floating naval museum, was launched 31 May 2006, exactly 90 years to the day since the Battle of Jutland took place. The exhibition will be on display until 2007.
The tragedy of the Western Front and the Battle of the Somme has perhaps overshadowed that of the Battle of Jutland and this exhibition has been especially curated to commemorate the 8,648 British and German sailors lost over the course of one day.
The lives and experiences of the men that served at Jutland on 31 May are profiled throughout the exhibition using oral history, artefacts, documents and film. These personal stories form the backbone of the exhibition: including the actions of Boy Seaman Jack Cornwell and Major Francis Harvey, RM, both awarded posthumous Victoria Crosses for their acts of bravery; and the accounts of Signalman H Y Ganderton who describes his own ship, HMS Engadine, coming alongside the stricken HMS Warrior to rescue survivors as it listed in the water.
The exhibition also features a hologram, created by Robert Munday, of Henry Allingham, aged 109, the last surviving veteran of the Battle of Jutland. Read more about the hologram here>>
Now, as the shipwrecks of Jutland are reclaimed and slowly eroded by the sea, the exhibition also shows recent expeditions to the wrecks and the battle that is raging to help preserve these wargraves for future generations.
Find out about the CD version of the Jutland Roll of Honour, available from the Family History Indexes website on http://www.fhindexes.co.uk/ | 
