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Description: | Notebook containing: an ms diary (55pp) kept during his service as armourer’s crew in HMS GLORIOUS (1st Cruiser Squadron, Battle Cruiser Force, Grand Fleet) between October 1917 and November 1918, with generally brief entries covering her deployment on convoy escort duty and the support of other operations in the North Sea and northern waters, other notable incidents involving the ship and her presence at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, but including a slightly longer account of her part in the Heligoland Bight action of 17 November 1917, and also ms technical notes on naval gunnery and an ms fair copy (11pp) of a newspaper report on the Heligoland Bight action; together with his official certificate of service in the Royal Navy (April 1917 - March 1919), his indenture for his six year apprenticeship to the firm of Thomas Danks & Co as a whitesmith (April 1911) and a postcard photograph of six unidentified naval ratings.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Harry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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