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Description: | A collection of letters written to his family during his service as a Chaplain in the Royal Navy, the first twelve (ts transcripts only), dated March - October 1915, sent from the battleship HMS AGAMEMNON while she was attached to the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron during the Gallipoli campaign and giving his impressions of the unsuccessful attempt to force the Narrows, the conduct of the Australian soldiers and the discomforts and dangers of service afloat and ashore at the Dardanelles; the thirteenth (ts transcript, 22 November 1918) from the battle cruiser HMS RENOWN describing the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet and its impact on the officers and men of the Grand Fleet; and the remaining six extremely detailed letters (photocopies of ts originals), dated September 1926 - January 1927, written from the cruiser HMS HAWKINS, the flagship on the China Station, and recounting the measures taken by British warships on the Yangtse River to meet the challenge from an independent Chinese war lord to British authority and interests in the province of Szechuan as well as commenting on the tense political situation in Shanghai and elsewhere in China as the result of an upsurge in nationalism and anti-British feeling.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2001-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Scott, W F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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