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Description: | Ms diary (100pp) for August 1914 - May 1915, possibly initially kept by another rating, with daily entries covering his service as a Royal Fleet Reserve able seaman in the battleship HMS CANOPUS, which was deployed on covering the passage of the BEF to France (August 1914), then as a guardship in the South Atlantic and South American waters carrying out shipping examination duties, but was also involved marginally in the Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands (September 1914 - January 1915), and finally with the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron during the Dardanelles operations on patrol duties and bombardment of the Turkish forts and in support of the Allied landings (March - May 1915). The diary also occasionally gives vent to lower deck frustrations over the shortage of rations, unwarranted punishments, inconsiderate behaviour by the officers and the preferential treatment of German survivors of the Falklands action.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2000-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Green, W A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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