Burnham Week participants, 1936
Archive Item Type: Photograph
Photograph of two men shaking hands. Ernst Laeisz represented Germany in the Six Metre class at the 1928 Olympic Games.
The original caption reads: “Herr Laeisz saying goodbye to Mr Velt after a cocktail aboard ‘Doriana’.” Burnham Week, Sunday 13 September 1936
Photograph by Christopher Boardman. The image was included in an album containing photographs dating from 1936 and 1937. The images were taken at Burnham Week, Sept 1936; How Hill (Olympic oak), 1936; Gosport & Portsmouth, 1937; Gosport & Bembridge, 1937; Burnham, 1937; Coronation Regatta, Torbay, 1937; Coronation Regatta, Dartmouth, 1937.
Other images from the album can be found here.