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Description: | Detailed ms account (144pp based on contemporary notes) of his experiences as a Chief Petty Officer serving with the RN Armoured Car Division (attached 29th Division) covering his voyage to Egypt via Malta and Lemnos in HMT INONKA (March 1915), manoeuvres there and on Skyros, the bombardment of Bulair and landings at Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles in which he participated with graphic descriptions of the slaughter at Gallipoli and interesting references to atrocity stories, attitudes to the enemy and to the Allies, to trench conditions and being under fire and accounts of the Third Battle of Krithia and the action at Gully Ravine (April - July 1915); a brief resume of his service at Suvla Bay and in Egypt, August - November 1915, and a more detailed record of his service with the RNACD in North Africa on manoeuvres and patrols and during skirmishes with Arab tribesmen, November 1915 - January 1916. Also sketches, notes and the identity discs of 6 fallen RNACD comrades.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1978-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sharkey, G V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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