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Description: | British cadet at Royal Naval College, Osborne, GB, 1917-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of period as cadet at Royal Naval College, Osborne, 1917-1918: reasons for early interest in Royal Navy; attending interview board at Russell Hotel, London, 10/1916; taking passage on tug from Portsmouth to Isle of Wight; educational subjects studied; carpentry and metalwork lessons; prowess in engineering studies; opinion of standard of education; boat work; morning abulutions; speed of dressing and undressing; influenza epidemic, 1918; lack of bullying; character of masters; Commander Boyle's dealing with misdemeanour; character of Nelson Assembly Hall.
REEL 2 Continues: degree of food shortages; entertainments; climbing mast; religious facilities; the 'Osborne shoe party'; wearing of uniform caps; degree to which education prepared cadets for naval life; life at Osborne; subsequent naval service in Engineering Branch and as navigation officer; further details of boat work. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Partridge, Michael S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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