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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms diary (256pp) covering his service as a RNAS Medical Officer to an Airship Expeditionary Force on Imbros, July - October 1915, and then his time spent recovering from illness in hospital in Mudros and on Malta, October - December 1915, and service as Surgeon in the cruiser HMS EURYALUS, January - July 1916, stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean and then proceeding into the Persian Gulf and on to Bombay, Colombo and Penang before his appointment as Port Medical Officer in Bombay (July 1916); describing the monotony of ship life, irritations including insects and heat, conditions of lower deck service as well as commenting on the effect of the Emden raid on the British residents in Penang (June 1916).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hewat, H A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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