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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms diary (82pp) recording his service as Chief Petty Officer in the battleship HMS AGAMEMNON in the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, July 1914 - November 1916, recording the ship's role as Guardship at Portland until the Squadron began attempts to reduce the number of Turkish forts at the entrance to the Dardanelles (25 February 1915 - 7 March 1915) where she helped to cover the landing and demolition parties of Royal Marines, describing the Allied naval losses suffered during the attempt to force the Narrows, then service in a supervisory capacity during the Allied minesweeping operations and providing supporting fire for the Allied right flank during the landings at X Beach, Gallipoli (10 May 1915), then a refit at Malta before returning to Mudros (June 1915) where he describes the high incidence of sickness, and then the bombardment of the Kavak Bridge (December 1915) after which she became the ship of the Senior Naval Officer at Salonika (April 1916) where he refers to visits to the British trenches and the shooting down of Zeppelin L85.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Degerdow, S R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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