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Description: | Papers relating to his service with the Royal Navy’s Coastal Motor Boat (CMB) Flotilla during 1918 – 1919, with particular reference to operations in the Gulf of Finland against Bolshevik forces at St Petersburg / Petrograd, comprising: Report by Sindall dated 22 June 1919 concerning the (abortive?) operations of CMB 4 on the night of 21 June 1919 to land a courier at Petrograd under fire from the forts at Kronstadt, in particular commending two officers who had also taken part in the earlier CMB attack on the Bolshevik cruiser OLEG (17 June 1919); two documents dated March 1919 signed by Sindall’s commanding officer in HMS OSEA (CMB base in Essex) and certifying that S. had served on CMBs under his command since September 1918; `Courier’s Passport’ (blank) issued by the British representative in Finland; cyclostyled `Instructions issued to [Commanding Officers of] CMBs when given command of new boats’, and accompanying `Stores, books etc for CMBs’; cyclostyled `CMB Flotilla organizations’ chart; papers in Finnish, including three ? safe-conduct certificates issued to Sindall at the CMB base at Terijoki in August – September 1919, official document issued by the ? Finnish War Ministry in June 1919 ?permitting CMB personnel (including “Agor” = ? Augustus Agar) to operate on Finnish territory and in Finnish waters, and a Finnish periodical (1919) containing an article on the CMB operations against the Bolsheviks at Kronstadt / Petrograd; Signal Log of CMB 15, 1917 – 1919 (mostly in UK waters, connection with Sindall not clear); two naval charts, showing Kronstadt and the CMB training area around Osea Island, Essex.
Cataloguer SWW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sindall, Edgar Robert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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