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Description: | A photograph and cuttings album, together with a few related documents, covering his service as a Sub Lieutenant in the light cruiser HMS DARTMOUTH (British Adriatic Squadron), September 1916 - June 1917, with particular reference to her part in a spirited action in the Adriatic on 15 May 1917 with some Austrian light cruisers which had raided the Allied drifter barrage in the Straits of Otranto, and also a patriotic souvenir paper napkin to mark his wedding in London in August 1917;together with three ts memoirs (37pp in total) written in the 1980s by G T W Kimbell, one describing his service as a signalman in the armoured cruiser HMS CARNARVON, July 1914 - May 1915, and covering her employment on patrol duties in the South Atlantic, her part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands when she rescued some of the survivors from the GNEISENAU and the subsequent search in South American waters for the German cruiser DRESDEN; the second recounting how he was one of the eight survivors from the submarine HMS K17 when she was sunk in collision with the light cruiser HMS FEARLESS off Rosyth on 31 January 1918; and the third recalling his service as an RN signalman ashore in Northern Ireland during the Second World War; plus a few related photographs.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1995-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Dodd, E R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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