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Description: | Ms journal (70pp) kept by an officer in the transport SS MYRMIDON, December 1915 - January 1916, recording her voyage from the United Kingdom to the Adriatic port of Valona in Albania carrying relief supplies for the remnants of the Serbian Army which had retreated into Albania following the invasion of their country by the Central Powers, the delay in getting these supplies to their intended recipients because of the reluctance of the Italian authorities controlling the Valona area to allow the Serbs into the town and the suffering of the still well-disciplined Serb forces and their Austrian prisoners caused by the lack of food, shelter and medical aid; together with a photograph of him in uniform
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1992-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilson, R J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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