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Description: | Ts account (311pp plus microfilm copy) describing his Royal Navy training in Plymouth harbour and aboard HMS GIBRALTAR (10th Cruiser Squadron) in 1913, then active service during the First World War as a rating in HMS TIGER based at Rosyth and Scapa Flow, recording the Spithead Naval Review of 1914, the Battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland, his employment as a diver at Scapa Flow during 1917 - 1918, the surrender of the German Fleet (November 1918) and his participation in the Victory Parade in London. Also held with the collection are a ts account (168pp) of the 'imperial world cruise' of the Special Service Squadron of the Royal Navy, 1923 - 1924, and other short ms accounts of his naval service.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hayward, A E V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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