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Description: | Ms diary (57pp) with photographs and postcards covering his service as a naval cadet in HMS HIGHFLYER on a Mediterranean cruise, April - June 1914, describing his social life and visits to Gibraltar, Villefranche, Leghorn, Naples, Malta, Algiers and Malaga; together with an ms Midshipman's Journal (32pp) covering his service in HMS DREADNOUGHT (4th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet) based on Scapa Flow and describing fleet and gunnery exercises, the progress of the campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare including a description of the anti-submarine net obstructing Scapa Flow and the sinking of the German submarine U 29; ms notes (6pp) concerning the 10th Cruiser Squadron, August - December 1914; his career records including an ms diary giving brief details of his home life, naval appointments and a list of places visited, 1895 - 1971; together with miscellaneous papers, 1887 - 1945, including photographs covering his naval service.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Masterman, T W A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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