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Description: | Ms diary/notebook (26pp) covering his service as an ordinary seaman in HMS LIVERPOOL (Light Cruiser Squadron, Grand Fleet) from July to November 1914, with brief entries recording her employment on offensive sweeps and other duties in the North Sea and off the west coast of Scotland and including descriptions of the Battle of the Heligoland Bight and the mining of HMS AUDACIOUS (27 October); and a more detailed ms diary (123pp) kept as an LTO/Petty Officer in HMS TOBAGO during her service in the 14th Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet (October 1918 - February 1919), with interesting references to the Armistice and the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, and then in the 6th Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet (March 1919 - September 1920) when her duties included the evacuation of refugees from the Black Sea ports and the bombardment of Bolshevik positions ashore during the Allied intervention in South Russia (April, May and December 1919). The latter diary also records TOBAGO's involvement in immediate post-war disturbances in Malta (June 1919), Fiume (September-October 1919) and Turkey (July 1920).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1986-04-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HMS LIVERPOOL HMS TOBAGO Royal Navy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hill, H A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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