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Description: | Ts memoir in two volumes (87pp and 63pp), the first of which describes his training with Marconi as a wireless telegrapher (May 1916), his period of employment with P&O on their flagship RMS MALAWA and his service as the senior wireless operator on SS THISTLEBAN until its loss in the Mediterranean in December 1916; the second volume (65pp), which is based on a contemporary diary and notes, relates to his service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) on Operation IRONCLAD, the Allied assault on the Vichy held island of Madagascar, describing the passage from Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania to Madagascar in the MV LINDI (April 1942), his reconnaissance of the area of coast targeted for attack (May 1942), his meeting with IRONCLAD's commanding officers, Major General Sturgess and Admiral Syfert (May 1942), and the capture of Diego Suarez (May 1942) and the capital Tananarive (Septemeber 1942). The memoirs are accompanied by the wireless log book (124pp) of the SS THISTLEBAN (July 1916 - December 1916) and a ts article (124pp) relating to the plight of Russian emigres in Korea following their escape from the Russian Revolution in the winter of 1917 - 1918 (undated).
Cataloguer AMB
Catalogue date 2003-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Legg, H J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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