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Description: | Small bound ‘Where is it?’ notebook containing occasional contemporaneous ms notes (ca 10pp) relating to his service as an Engine Room Artificer RNR during the First World War, notably to a short period of compassionate leave following his mother’s death in July 1916 and to his service in the Grand Fleet destroyer HMS SYLVIA from September 1916 – November 1917 during which time, while employed on patrol and convoy escort duties in Northern waters, she rescued close to 250 survivors from various merchant ships sunk by U boats and helped to sink the German submarine UC 55 off the Shetland Islands on 29 September 1917; together with photographs of him and of his Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone in Northumberland. In February 1918 he was appointed to the destroyer HMS ROEBUCK in the Devonport Local Defence Flotilla and he died in October 1918 during the Spanish influenza epidemic.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McCarty, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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