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Description: | Ms memoirs (two versions, 185 and 44pp), first written in the late 1920s, covering his decision, at the age of 17, to enlist in the Royal Navy in early 1915, his training as a stoker at the RN Barracks Chatham (January - June 1915), his service in the battleship HMS HIBERNIA (June 1915 - March 1918) mainly on patrol duties in Home waters but at the Dardanelles for the conclusion of the Gallipoli campaign (November 1915 - January 1916); in the destroyer HMS WARWICK in the Dover Patrol (March - June 1918) including participation in the raids on Zeebrugge and then Ostend, when WARWICK was damaged by a mine; in the icebreaker HMS ALEXANDER (September 1918 - June 1919) in Arctic waters during the North Russian campaign as an engineer writer in the Mediterranean Fleet battleship HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA (March - November 1920) including service in the Black Sea during the final stages of the Allied intervention in South Russia and in Turkish waters; his appointment to the Mechanical Training Establishment at Chatham and qualification as an acting Mechanician (1921 - 1922); and his service in this rank in the cruiser HMS HAWKINS, the flagship on the China station, from April 1923 until he was invalided out of the Royal Navy the following year; together with an ms account (20pp) of his service in HMS WARWICK during the Zeebrugge and Ostend raids and ms diaries (59 and 71pp respectively) that he kept throughout his time in ALEXANDER and EMPEROR OF INDIA and a photocopy of his official employment record in the Royal Navy.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1991-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Minter, C J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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