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Description: | Ts account (4pp) written in June 1920 for the Committee on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War describing his treatment after being captured by Bolshevik forces after a forced landing in Odessa whilst serving with the Royal Naval Air Service stationed on HM seaplane carrier EMPRESS August – November 1919, detailing the conditions in the various criminal and POW prisons in which he was interred, interrogations he underwent, his journey by rail and by foot from to prisons and stations in Odessa, Balta, Bransk, Smolensk and Moscow, the lack of food and winter clothing, the lack of treatment for his observers wounded arm, the infestation of vermin and the provisions sent by the Moscow Chaplain Reverend Frank North. Together with his flying log book (37pp) covering his training at RNAS Vendome (February – March 1918), seaplane training at Lee-on-Solent (April – May 1918), at North Shore Seaplane Station, Taranto (August – December 1918), at Malta Seaplane Base (May 1919) and in HM seaplane carrier EMPRESS (July – August 1919) and a photograph of Porter in naval uniform in later life.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Porter, Cecil Harold | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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