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Description: | Notebook containing an ms account (23pp, with separate 3pp ts transcript) written on 1 July 1916 by a seventeen year old Signalman RNVR in HMS GLOUCESTER (3rd Light Cruiser Squadron, Grand Fleet) giving his impressions of the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916 as seen from his action station on the ship’s fore-bridge with particular reference to their relief at their first sighting of the main British Battle Fleet after at first being outnumbered by the German High Seas Fleet, the destruction of the battle cruiser HMS INVINCIBLE, the fierce fighting in the early evening, the damage witnessed in the aftermath of the action and his belief ‘that we obtained the victory is unquestionable’. The notebook, which also includes his ms lists (10pp, with separate 3pp ts transcript) of the major British warships present at Jutland and of British and German losses in the battle, and a presscutting about the bull terrier which was GLOUCESTER’s ship’s mascot, is accompanied by copies of three photographs of him in uniform.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pole, Arthur William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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