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Description: | Series of 20 ms letters written to his sister and covering his service in the light cruiser HMS ACTIVE as Captain (D) of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet (March 1914 - November 1915), in the light cruiser HMS CASTOR as Commodore (December 1915 - November 1917) and as Captain of the Grand Fleet battle cruiser HMS INFLEXIBLE at the time of the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet (November 1918) with interesting comments about Admiral Jellicoe, the prospects of fleet action, the U-boat threat and the political direction of the British war effort; together with 9 ms letters from his brother Brigadier General R P T Hawksley to his sister, principally concerning his appointments in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force as the CRE of the 53rd Division (March - July 1916) and the 74th Division (July 1917) and as Chief Engineer XXI Corps (September 1917 - February 1918), with useful references to operations and senior commanders, notably Major General A G Dallas; also one ts letter from Brigadier General Hawksley, dated October 1939, commenting on the Special Constabulary in the Second World War, and single ms letters from English nurses at Nevers Hospital, France (December 1914) and with a Scottish Women's Hospital unit in Romania (December 1916).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hawksley, J R P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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