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Description: | Transcription (42pp ts) of an account written by Nicholls in 1937 concerning his Royal Navy service during the First World War, recording his enlistment with a friend in 1915 and training at the Crystal Palace RN Depot in south London, followed by dock work at Portsmouth before joining HMS FALMOUTH (3rd Light Cruiser Squadron) at Rosyth for patrolling duties in the North Sea, with whom he saw action at Jutland, May – June 1916, the sinking of FALMOUTH after a German U-boat attack in August 1916, transfer to the light cruiser HMS WEYMOUTH at Chatham the following month and service on the West Indies and North America stations (including the interception of a German supply ship servicing the commerce raider SMS MOEWE [?]), and with the same ship in Mediterranean waters, a period of serious illness and hospitalisation at Brindisi (Italy) and overland return to England for convalescence, subsequent service with the Royal Naval Division in Belgium, and brief service in HMS NEPTUNE, Scapa Flow, before the end of the war [whilst generally well-written, the memoir is rather weak on dates].
Cataloguer SWW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HMS WEYMOUTH light cruiser (1910) Royal Navy HMS FALMOUTH | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Nicholls, George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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