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Description: | 49 loose photographic prints and photographic postcards relating to the service of Petty Officer F W Smith as a stoker in the Royal Navy between 1913 - 1920. Included are ship portraits of HMS CERES, HMS DOON and HMS KALE. The majority of the photographs cover Smith's service aboard HMS CERES between 1918 - 1920. Deployments include Libau (1918), Fiume and Spalato (1919), Odessa (1920). The are also a small number of photographs covering the surrender and internment of the German High Seas Fleet in November 1918. Three group photographs of stokers onboard HMS CERES are also included. Other subjects covered by the collection include the 8th Battalion The Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment at Fiume (1 June 1919), the sinking of HMS CORNWALLIS (1917) and public executions in Yugoslavia and Turkey, the latter probably relating to the Armenian massacre during WWI. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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