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Description: | Ms memoir (26pp) covering his life between 1882 and 1919 and service in the Royal Navy from 1898 as a Midshipman in HMS EMPRESS OF INDIA on the Mediterranean stations and in HMS NIOBE on the Home station; from 1903 in a sail training ship for boys, as Sub-Lieutenant; in HMS DIAMOND, HMS MINERVA, HMS ROXBURGH and HMS THUNDERER (1912 - 1917) and then HMS ORION (1917 - 1919); analysing the qualities of HMS THUNDERER's wartime Captains including Thomas Jackson and the missed opportunities of the Battle of Jutland; together with an ms diary (104pp) recording his experiences as Commodore of Convoys between January 1944 and April 1945, describing the transatlantic and Mediterranean convoys during that time and his thoughts on previous convoys in which he had sailed, referring to Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham as First Sea Lord and the dismissal of Admiral Sir Dudley North from his Gibraltar command.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Dawson, Oswald | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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