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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ms diary (71pp) and 9 ms letters covering his service as an Assistant Clerk in the Home Fleet battleship HMS CONQUEROR, August 1913 - May 1914, with useful comments on the Accountant Branch and gunroom life; 12 ms letters covering his service as a Clerk in the battle cruiser HMS INVINCIBLE, August 1914 - April 1915, including outstanding descriptions of the Battles of the Heligoland Bight and the Falkland Islands; together with a few other ms and ts letters written from the battle cruiser HMS RENOWN, 1916 - 1920, one of which describes the start of the Prince of Wales' second Empire Tour in 1920, from the battleship HMS MALAYA recounting the evacuation of the Sultan of Turkey during the Near East crisis in 1922, and from the aircraft carrier HMS ARK ROYAL in 1941, including a reference to the sinking of the German battleship BISMARCK in May.
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Catalogue date 1984-04-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Steele, W R C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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