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Description: | Records of his naval career, 1910 - 1944, including his ms Midshipman's Journal (ca 100pp) covering his service in the Home Fleet in the battleship HMS AGAMEMNON (June 1910 - February 1911), the battle cruiser HMS NEW ZEALAND (May - July 1911), the destroyer HMS SARACEN (September - October 1911), the cruiser HMS DEFENCE (November 1911 - February 1912) and the battle cruiser HMS INDOMITABLE (February - September 1912); printed Admiralty orders (15pp) concerning the damage sustained by ships of the Harwich Force at the Battle of the Heligoland Bight in August 1914; seven copies of the 'Tenedos Times', the newspaper of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla during the Dardanelles campaign (1914 - 1915); ts legal report (8pp) on the claim by the ship's company of the sloop HMS CYCLAMEN for payment for salvaging a merchant ship in the Persian Gulf (1923); a ts report (52pp) on the RAF expedition to select landing grounds and gather political intelligence in the Persian Gulf (1927); miscellaneous documents relating to Jack's service with the International Council for Non-Intervention during the Spanish Civil War (1937 - 1938) and to whaling inspection in South Georgia (1938 - 1939), sailing orders issued by Vice Admiral Gordon Campbell VC and letters of proceedings submitted by Jack during his command of the Q-ship HMS ORCHY covering her patrols in the Western Approaches and Irish Sea (April - August 1940); Standing Orders and memoranda for HMS IRWELL, the Trawler Base at Birkenhead (1942 - 1943); a ts report (15pp) on the working of the port of Ancona in Italy (September 1944); together with various official service records, maps and charts and a photograph album.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2001-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jack, C V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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