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Description: | Three ms letters, dated 21-28 November 1918, written to his mother while he was serving as a Midshipman in the battle cruiser HMS REPULSE, based on Rosyth, describing the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet and mentioning in particular the behaviour of the German officers, the restrictions on communicating with them and his visit to the MOLTKE when he observed several signs of the lack of discipline and pride among her crew; together with a scrapbook (37pp) containing letters, press cuttings, telegrams, photographs and Russian banknotes relating to his imprisonment at Baku after being seized by the Bolsheviks while on a British naval mission under Commander B A (later Admiral of the Fleet Lord) Fraser, 1920 - 1921, and two ms letters, dated July - August 1920, to his mother and sister describing conditions at Bailov Prison in Baku.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2009-08-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Keighley, H S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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