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Description: | Transcriptions (7pp ts) of two letters written by Davis to his parents in November – December 1918 while serving as a Royal Navy Writer in HMS BLENHEIM, describing in generally light-hearted terms the passage out from England at the end of 1915 aboard the SS KARMALA to Malta and from there to Mudros where he joined BLENHEIM, depot ship of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla patrolling the Dardanelles and Aegean, commenting on German submarine and Zeppelin raids and recounting the story of the British attack on the Turkish Navy ships YAVUZ SULTAN SELIM and MIDILLI (formerly SMS GOEBEN and BRESLAU) in January 1918, and describing BLENHEIM’s subsequent relocations to Brindisi (Italy) and Ismid (Turkey), where he was at the time of the armistice in November 1918.
Cataloguer SWW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Davis, Harold Walter | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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