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Description: | Ts transcript (6pp) of an undated memoir describing how, as a very recent member of the Royal Fleet Reserve, he was mobilised and recalled to the RN Barracks Portsmouth in August 1914 and appointed two months later as an able seaman in the armoured cruiser HMS KENT which was deployed to the South Atlantic in November 1914 and was present with Vice Admiral Sturdee’s squadron at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914 when, after a fierce action, she sank the German light cruiser NURNBERG and rescued the handful of survivors and then remained on the Pacific Station, taking part in the search for, and eventual sinking of, the German light cruiser DRESDEN off the coast of Chile on 14 March 1915 and later proceeding into dock in Vancouver for repairs to the damage sustained during the Falklands action.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Austin, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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