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Description: | Eleven ms and ts transcriptions of letters (52pp) written while a Lieutenant Commander to members of his family during his commands of the destroyers HMS RIBBLE (1915 - 1916) and HMS REDPOLE (1917), both with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, and includes details of their service in the Mediterranean station, with eyewitness accounts of the naval attack on the Dardanelles (March 1915), the Anzac landings, and other aspects of the Gallipoli campaign and the progress of anti-submarine operations in the Mediterranean.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | destroyer (1910) HMS RIBBLE 5th Destroyer Flotilla destroyer (1904) Royal Navy HMS REDPOLE | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilkinson, Ralph Wilmot | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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