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Description: | Ts account (4pp), written in July 1916, of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 as he witnessed it as a midshipman in the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES, including an account of his time in charge of the ship's pinnace, responsible for collecting wounded from the beach; together with the ts war diary (11pp) of HMS BULOLO (June 1944), the Combined Operations Headquarters Ship in which he served as Commander, controlling the 'Gold' sector of the British landings in Normandy on D-Day, recording the various German air raids made on the anchorage off the beachhead including a direct hit when four officers and ratings were killed; and a printed order of service (16pp) for the Second Army Thanksgiving Service on the conclusion of the campaign in North West Europe in May 1945.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2002-05-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clark, E B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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