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Description: | Uninformative ms diary (34pp) covering his service as a 2nd Writer at Wei-Hai-Wei on the China Station and his passage back to the United Kingdom (April - December 1910) together with a very interesting and at times graphic ms diary (133pp) kept as a Petty Officer Writer in the armoured cruiser HMS KENT and covering her employment on the Cape Verde - Canaries Station in the Atlantic (October - November 1914); with Vice-Admiral Sturdee's squadron in the South Atlantic (November - December 1914) including the Battle of the Falklands, where she sank the German light cruiser NURNBERG; on the Pacific Station (December 1914 - March 1916) during which time she was present at the sinking of the German light cruiser DRESDEN off the Juan Fernandez Islands (14 March 1915); refitting in South Africa (April - June 1916) and the UK (January - February 1917); and on the Cape Station (June - December 1916 and March 1917 - June 1918) escorting troop transports in convoy between South and West Africa. With the diary, which includes many references to the increasingly adverse effect on the crew's morale of the monotony of the ship's duties and poor living conditions, are official minute by minute records of the Falklands and DRESDEN actions and other correspondence, papers, presscuttings and printed ephemera concerning KENT's service between 1914 and 1918.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1987-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Welch, H S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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