@ Dunmunro,
you wrote :
You are right.There is no indication from Henry Leach or Wills that John and Henry Leach ever talked about a possible CM after the Bismarck action. You are making assumptions that are not supported by the works you have referenced. There is also no indication that John Leach ever discussed a possible CM with Tovey or anyone else.
We are sure that John and Henry Leach talked the night of December 6th, 1941 in Singapore, we have the list of the arguments Henry wanted to talk with his father, but we do not have the precise list of what they really talked about.
This is exactly the reason why I wrote above :
We only HAVE the two books of Sir Henry Leach clearly stating he knew about the Court Martial initial request from Adm Pound to Adm Tovey and the defence of Adm Tovey that defeated Adm Pound initiative.3) Sir Henry Leach information about the Court Martial request regarding his father were never correlated neither to Kennedy nor to Roskill. He spent the evening of December 6th, 1941 in Singapore talking all night long with his father and that is the most probable source of his information about the Court Martial story he was well aware of during his life. In any case, it is very possible that he also met either Adm Tovey as well as Roskill before they died, but never used them as reference on his books.
His statements about the Court Martial request are clear.
This we DO HAVE !
That is what this matter is all about.
A clear INDICATION of the fact that Sir Henry Leach knew about it, and considered it a REAL FACT !
Sir Henry Leach knew about it and referenced about it on two books plus the caption on Tarrant book.
This should have stopped the useless debate you keep on carrying on, but apparently it does not for well known reasons.
Is it clear enough for you now ?
Talking about " no indications ", someone here in is trying since years to correlate Adm Tovey last life period with a potential dementia and his declarations about this Court Martial initiative from Adm Pound.
You had " no indications " about it, ... just like Sir Kennedy had " no indications " about it, ... but you kept on trying to convince everybody about your unsupported theory, ... on and on as we can all read on this thread pages, ... until the truth about Stephen Roskill letters received from Adm Tovey on 1954 surfaced ... killing definitively this unsupported " theory " of trying to connect and correlate the Adm Tovey Court Martial declarations with his last life period and a potential dementia he was suffering on that period. A very unfair trial from your side.
@ CAG,
if you are not able to realize the difference between a proven evidence of a fact occurred declared by a reliable witness from an anecdotal evidence of something that might have happened but it is not proven by anybody, this is your problem and not mine.
Same concept apply to documents, timing, maps and messages intentional alteration occurred one week after a previously released similar documentation with a main event in between changing completely the scenario for the Officers releasing those data.
There are persons not able to understand evidence and facts, ... there are person not willing to realize it and accept it unless they are well proven, ... there are persons that will NEVER accept any evidence becoming a fact no matter what type of evidence you are going to show them, ... last there are persons willing to INVENT all sort of ridiculous theories in order to counter until the end any evidence you can show them in order to avoid to accept them being a proven fact.
I leave to you the correlation of some forum members we can read here above ...
Bye Antonio