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Description: | Photocopied ts account (4pp) describing his service as a naval cadet in the armoured cruiser HMS HOGUE, the torpedoing in the Broad Fourteens of HMS ABOUKIR and the attempts by HMS HOGUE to rescue survivors before being struck by a torpedo herself, his rescue and transfer to the light cruiser HMS LOWESTOFT and then the torpedoing of HMS CRESSY (22 September 1914); together with a ts copy of a report (4pp) written by him while serving as the Sea Transport Officer at Piraeus Dock, Athens describing the circumstances connected with the explosion on HMT CLAN FRASER at Piraeus Harbour (April 1941); and a photocopied ts account (3pp) recording his experiences in command of the Greek caique AGIOS GEORGIUS, 23 April - 11 May 1941, including her role in the evacuation of Allied troops from Nauplia and Monemvasia in Greece before proceeding to Crete and then Alexandria.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2002-06-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hook, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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