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Description: | Carbon copy (2pp ts) of a letter written to his father in July 1915 while serving in the Royal Navy submarine E 7, describing in enthusiastic language her operations in the Sea of Marmara against Turkish shipping and coastal railways during the Dardanelles campaign, stating that E 7 sank some 30 ships; photocopy of another letter (4pp ts) written by him in November 1918 from HMS MAIDSTONE, Harwich, describing the official handing over to the Royal Navy of part of the German U-boat fleet, during which he took particular responsibility for U 161, U 117, U 24 and U 151; photocopies of two related newspaper articles and three photographs; and four letters (9pp ms) written in 1918 to his sister, Constance Ward, by former British prisoners of war in Germany, thanking her for her work in sending parcels to them while they were in captivity.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2003-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ward, V E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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