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Description: | Wordprocessed transcript (28pp) of a diary covering his service as an Ordinary Signalman RNVR in the armed merchant cruiser HMS OTRANTO from August 1914 – March 1915 containing almost no personal comment, but giving navigational and other details of her passage from Tilbury to South America (August – September), her employment on patrol and shipping examination duties off the east and west coasts of South America and in the Magellan Straits (September – October), her very brief participation in the Battle of Coronel (1 November) and passage back to the South Atlantic and then briefly to and from Sierra Leone (November - December), her deployment as a guardship at the Falkland Islands (December – January) and her passage back to the United Kingdom with some German prisoners of war and other naval ratings and seamen on board (February – March) as well as always identifying ships in company with OTRANTO and related shipping movements; together with photocopies of: his official certificate of service (4pp) in the London Division of the RNVR (1912 – 1919), a picture postcard of OTRANTO sent to his mother on 7 August 1914 in which he mentions how the ship was being fitted out for naval service and a group photograph showing him (standing in centre of front row) in naval uniform.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Conder, John Reynolds | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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