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Description: | Ms journal (52pp), probably written in late 1919, giving an essentially factual day by day record of the commission of the light cruiser HMS NEWCASTLE between 1916 and 1919 which he had joined as a petty officer, after a sea and rail passage from the United Kingdom and across Canada, on the Pacific Station in September 1916 and which was subsequently employed, largely on patrol and convoy escort duties, in the Eastern Mediterranean (December 1916 – January 1917), on the East Indies Station (February – May 1917), with the British Adriatic Squadron (June – October 1917) and as the Commodore’s ship on the South East Coast of South America (December 1917 – June 1919). The journal includes details about the outcome of disciplinary proceedings against a number of the ship’s officers and ratings, matches played by the ship’s football team and measures taken when many numbers of the ship’s company became ill with the Spanish influenza in October 1918 and also has useful comments on the warm reception accorded to the ship in several ports in South America during 1918 and to the ship’s company’s delight when NEWCASTLE proceeded back to the United Kingdom in June 1919.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Grice, G W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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