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Description: | Ts memoir (153pp) of his service in the Royal Marines, 1914 - 1952, describing briefly his enlistment, training and service in the cruiser HMS DUKE OF EDINBURGH in 1915 - 1916, including his experiences during the Battle of Jutland, then in the Harwich Force cruiser HMS COVENTRY from 1916 - 1919, during which time he helped in the repatriation of former British prisoners of war from Stettin and witnessed the Spartacist disturbances in Hamburg, in the cruiser HMS CURACOA, 1919 - 1923, in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Turkish-Greek conflict, August 1922, as a Small Arms Instructor at Plymouth, 1923 - 1926, in the battleship HMS REVENGE, 1926 - 1927, on the staff of C-in-C Africa Station as Staff Officer (Intelligence) 1927 - 1932, in an appointment in the Plans Division of the Admiralty, 1932 - 1936, followed by further staff appointments as Secretary of the Joint Planning Committee, 1936 - 1937, as Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence , 1937 - 1939, and as Secretary of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, 1939 - 1946, when he also acted as General Ismay's deputy, which brought him into close contact with Churchill both in the Cabinet War Rooms and on his foreign trips to the United States (September and December 1941), to Cairo (November 1943), to Teheran (November 1943) and in Marrakesh (January 1944)and finally as Chief Staff Officer to the Ministry of Defence and Deputy Secretary (Military), 1946 - 1949, after which he became Commandant General of the Royal Marines from May 1949 until his retirement in 1952.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1986-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hollis, Leslie Chasemore | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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