Description: | Two ms accounts (9pp), written in March and April 1915, recording his experiences as a sailor in HMS PRINCE GEORGE, March - April 1915, including: the attempt by the Fleet to force the Dardanelles, 18 March 1915, and the landings on Gallipoli, 25 April 1915; describing the Turkish defences, his admiration for the French Navy, the loss of the BOUVET, HMS OCEAN, and HMS IRRESISTIBLE, the running aground of HMS INFLEXIBLE, and his disappointment at the fleet's withdrawal, 18 March 1915; the landings by the British from boats and HMS RIVER CLYDE on Gallipoli and by the French on the Asiatic coast, the Turkish resistance, the supporting bombardment by HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, LORD NELSON, ALBION and VENGEANCE, the heavy casualties, especially suffered by the 1st Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and the rescue of the wounded by boats from HMS CORNWALLIS, 25 April 1915.
Cataloguer SNR
Catalogue date 1990-07-18 |