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Description: | A ms diary (107pp) kept during his service as a midshipman in the battleship HMS AGAMEMNON (British Agean Squadron) (31 December 1917 - March 1918, October - December 1918), mainly of the ship's routines and his duties for the first part, with more detailed narrative entries for the end of 1918, with details of AGAMEMNON's task to prevent the German ships GOEBEN and BRESLAU from breaking out of the Dardenelles, particularly their breakout and destruction in January 1918 (of which AGAMEMNON played no part), and a party of Turkish delegates boarding the ship leading to the signing of an Armistice on board HMS AGAMEMNON (October 1918), proceeding to Constantinople, with time at Ismid (November 1918), and then heading to Sebastopol, where they were to assist the White Russians against the local Bolsheviks (December 1918). Together with pages from a photograph album (31pp) compiled by Rodger during his service in HMS AGAMEMNON at Malta and Mudros, and containing photographs of naval subjects and a few related presscuttings (October 1917 - November 1918), and a photograph album (26pp) containing photographs and postcards taken or acquired by him during AGAMEMNON's service at Constantinople, Ismid and Sebastopol (November 1918 - January 1919).
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HMS AGAMEMNON Royal Navy predreadnought battleship (1906) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rodger, Robert Hedley Selborne | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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