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Description: | Microfilm copy of two ms Midshipman's Log Books and two ms diaries kept during his service as a Midshipman in HMS DRAKE in the Atlantic and Channel Fleets (1907 - 1909), in HMS TRIUMPH on the Mediterranean Station (1909 - 1910), and in the battleship HMS HINDUSTAN in the Home Fleet (July 1910 - September 1910) detailing drills and evolutions, gunnery practices, fleet exercises and manoeuvres and providing a useful picture of the 'Fisher era'; also a microfilm copy of an ms diary recording his service in HMS AGAMEMNON during the first months of the Gallipoli campaign (15 February 1915 - 28 May 1915) beginning with his arrival at Malta and detailing his experience in the fore top as a member of the observation party charged with the selection of possible targets, supplying bearings for the guns and spotting the fall of shot, describing how he took part in the bombardments at the entrance to the Dardanelles before serving on a trawler and performing night minesweeping in the narrows, returning to HMS AGAMEMNON for the main naval attack after which he describes the landings between Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles, and supporting the Allied landing near De Tott's Battery where he describes the panic of the French troops, revealing his thoughts on the conduct of the campaign including moral qualms about indiscriminate bombardment, criticising the organisation of the campaign, Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck and various ship's captains, the absence of instructions, and blaming inadequate night defence and anti-submarine procedures for the loss of HMS GOLIATH and HMS TRIUMPH.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Crookshank, G C C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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