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Description: | Ms account (77pp) of his service as a Midshipman RNR serving in HMS INDIA and HMS OROTAVA, 1915 - 1917, describing the duties of HMS INDIA (10th Cruiser Squadron) patrolling off the Norwegian coast, the several U-boat attacks she experienced before being torpedoed and sunk (August 1915) and his rescue by the Swedish ship GOTALAND, after which he was landed in Narvik before being put in a temporary internment camp and returned to the United Kingdom where he was posted to HMS OROTAVA patrolling near Rockall Bank, intercepting an American ship carrying aeroplanes and armoured cars for the Germans before he was posted to Sierra Leone and employed on escort work on the West African coast; together with a printed order of service for the funeral service held at Narvik for officers and ratings of HMS INDIA (August 1915), a photograph of some survivors of HMS INDIA and a printed copy of the poem (8pp) 'The Log of HMS INDIA' (December 1915).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-24 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McKeag, E L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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