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Description: | Microfilm copies of his official service records, including his letters of appointment and flimsies (1898 - 1935); of a ts memoir (231pp), written ca 1942, covering his service as an officer in the Paymaster Branch of the Royal Navy, initially in the Mediterranean Fleet under the commands of Admirals Sir John Fisher and Lord Charles Beresford (1898 - 1901), in two unhappy ships, the cruisers HMS PYRAMUS (1901) and HMS RAINBOW (1902 - 1903), as a clerk to the Captain of the RN Barracks Devonport (1904 - 1906), as Secretary in the battleships HMS ALBEMARLE and HMS CORNWALLIS to the Rear Admiral Second in Command, Atlantic Fleet (1908 - 1909), as Secretary to Captain R E (later Admiral of the Fleet Lord Wester) Wemyss at the RN Barracks Devonport, including the Duke of Connaught's visit to South Africa on the liner BALMORAL CASTLE to open the first Union Parliament (1909 - 1911), as an Assistant Paymaster on the liner MEDINA on which HM King George V and Queen Mary took passage to India for the Delhi Coronation Durbar (1911 - 1912), as Secretary to Wemyss again in the Home Fleet battleship HMS ORION and at the RN Barracks Portsmouth (1912 - 1914), as Paymaster in the Harwich Force light cruiser HMS ARETHUSA (August 1914 - February 1915), as Secretary to Wemyss in his appointment as Senior Naval Officer, Mudros during the Dardanelles campaign (February - December 1915) and his command of the East Indies and Egypt Station, including operations in Mesopotamia, Arabia and Palestine (December 1915 - July 1917), as Second Naval Assistant to Wemyss during his appointments at the Admiralty as Deputy First Sea Lord and then First Sea Lord, with many useful references to Wemyss's professional qualities and personality (late 1917 - June 1919); of Miller's diary (81pp) kept during the Duke and Duchess of Connaught's visit to South Africa (October - December 1910); of his ms diary (88pp) of the royal visit to India for the Coronation Durbar (November 1911 - January 1912); of his ms diary (139pp) of service as Paymaster in HMS ARETHUSA including excellent accounts of the Battle of the Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914, the Christmas Day air raid on Cuxhaven, the Battle of the Dogger Bank and the Harwich Force's sweeps and patrols in the North Sea (August 1914 - February 1915); of three contemporary ts articles (39pp in total) describing life in Hong Kong, Wei-Hai-Wei and on the West River during his appointment as Secretary to Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Sir Alexander Duff, Commander-in-Chief, China Station (1919 - 1921); and of ms drafts of speeches on naval matters given on the conclusion of his last commission at sea (1930) and during his retirement (1934 - 1946) and of an ms letter on the Munich settlement (1938). The microfilms are accompanied by an extensive collection of original papers, largely official in character, covering in particular his appointments during the First World War and his service as the officer in charge of the RN W/T training establishments at Chicksands, Bedfordshire (1940 - 1941), Soberton Towers, Hampshire (1941 - 1942) and St Bede's, Eastbourne, Sussex (1942 - 1945).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2001-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Miller, H (Rear Admiral) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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