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Description: | Two ms diaries (140pp in total), written in summary fashion and covering his service as an Able/Leading Seaman in the Harwich Force destroyers HMS LOYAL (August 1914 - April 1917) and HMS TEMPEST (April 1917 - March 1919) and including brief accounts of the sinking of the German minelayer KONIGIN LUISE and the British light cruiser HMS AMPHION (5 - 6 August 1914), the successful action in the North Sea against four German destroyers (17 October 1914), the sinking of the light cruiser HMS ARETHUSA (11 February 1916), the raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend (22 - 23 April 1918) and operations in the Heligoland Bight (11 August 1918); together with a ts transcript (53pp) of his 1914 - 1917 diary, a ts copy (63pp) of a diary kept by an unidentified fellow rating in HMS TEMPEST and a few related documents.
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Catalogue date 1969-03-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Snelling, A G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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