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Description: | British officer served aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in GB coastal waters, North Sea and Aegean, 1915-1918; present at surrender of German High Seas Fleet, 11/ 1918
REEL 1: Education at Royal Naval College Osborne, 1911. Aspects of operations aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1915-1918: story of seeing HMS Warspite returning from Jutland, 1916; role of HMS Queen Elizabeth as Beatty's flagship; opinion of Beatty and tactics at Battle of Jutland; question of concentration of gunfire; physical training; recreational activities; regattas; memory of inspection by King George V; discipline aboard ship; leave; story of US battleships from 6th Battle Sqdn joining Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow; memory of band playing jazz aboard USS Texas; recreational and sporting activities at Rosyth; battle formation of Grand Fleet; contact with German Fleet, 8/1918; use of balloons; memory of Armistice, 11/11/1918. Recollections of surrender of German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, 11/1918: memory of Captain Muller; negotiation of surrender terms; amusing story of cheese; memory of visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Grand Fleet; role of HMS Queen Elizabeth escorting German Fleet to anchorage; question of remaining at full action stations during surrender of German Fleet.
REEL 2 Continues: role of Queen Elizabeth as escort; story of crews cheering Beatty; morale of German Fleet; question of integration of US 6th Battle Sqdn into Grand Fleet and Anglo-American co-operation | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Boswell, Lennox Albert Knox | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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