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Description: | An extensive collection of records relating to his naval career, 1904 - 1944, including his official service records, two Midshipman's Journals covering his service in the battleships HMS SWIFTSURE and HMS IMPLACABLE (1904 - 1907), a gunnery notebook kept in HMS EXCELLENT (1908), his four prize essays on naval subjects (1931 - 1934), diaries and papers covering his attachment to the Colombian Navy (1934 - 1939), a diary kept while on the staff of Rear Admiral, Alexandria (June - December 1942), diaries written as Chief of Staff to Flag Officer, London (December 1942 - December 1944), and some personal correspondence (1916 - 1942) including letters from a family friend describing her experience of German air raids on London (September 1917) and wartime life in Sittingbourne, Kent (1940 - 1941); together with his son's Midshipman's Journal covering his service in the battleship HMS WARSPITE, the destroyer HMS DECOY and the battleship HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH (October 1940 - December 1941), a small number of his son's other, more personal wartime writings (1939 - 1941) and a privately printed copy of a book of poems entitled 'Warspite Melodies'.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1992-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HMS IMPLACABLE HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH battleship (1903) HMS SWIFTSURE HMS EXCELLENT Royal Navy battleship (1913) destroyer (1932) battleship (1899) HMS DECOY HMS WARSPITE | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Binney, Ralph Douglas | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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