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Description: | Ts eye witness account (4pp) of the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in June 1919 written while he was serving as First Lieutenant of the destroyer HMS WESTCOTT; together with ts extracts from six letters written to his parents while WESTCOTT was stationed in the Baltic, May - November 1919, describing the hospitality received from the Danes and difficulties with Bolshevik agitators (August 1919), patrolling in the Gulf of Finland while attached to Admiral Cowan's squadron (August 1919), serving as guard ship at Helsingfors (September - October 1919) before returning to the United Kingdom (November 1919).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2011-05-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McCall, Henry William Urquhart | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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