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Description: | Ts transcript (46pp) of his lively and informative journal, mainly written ca 1915, covering his service as a Leading Telegraphist in the destroyer HMS BULLDOG and embracing her commissioning at Sheerness (November 1913), her deployment with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, based on Malta and the cruises and tactical exercises in which she took part (December 1913 - July 1914), their mobilisation at Malta and capture of a prize almost immediately after the outbreak of war, the involvement in the abortive pursuit of the GOEBEN and BRESLAU and the sinking of the Austrian cruiser ZENTA (August 1914), their employment on patrol duties off the Dardanelles and the first bombardment of the Dardanelles forts (August - November 1914), BULLDOG's passage back to the United Kingdom and service, based on Portsmouth, escorting troop transports across the English Channel (December 1914 - March 1915) and her service with the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron during the Gallipoli campaign, including supporting the original Anzac landings, patrolling, minesweeping and gunfire support duties and landing troops at Suvla Bay (April - September 1915) and ending with her passage to Belfast for a refit (October 1915); and including his interesting and sometimes forthright opinions about living conditions and routine in BULLDOG, the partiality of her Captain and some of her ship's company to drink, the quality of the places, and their inhabitants, visited by BULLDOG, the patriotic attitude of the ship's company when war broke out, his apportioning of blame for the failure to intercept the GOEBEN and BRESLAU and the lack of success of the Gallipoli landings, his admiration for the high spirits of the troops both before and after the landings and for the gallantry of the British submarine crews, his irritation at the lack of recognition of the work of the destroyers and his recognition of the stresses on their ship's companies of the many demands made on them as the Gallipoli campaign progressed.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2005-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Baker, A E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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