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Description: | Ms journal in two volumes, slightly edited in 1936 from the original, and including relevant presscuttings and reliquiae covering his service as a midshipman in the battleship HMS IMPLACABLE, August 1914 - April 1916, and as a midshipman and junior officer in the battleship HMS ROYAL OAK (1st Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet), May 1916 - December 1918. IMPLACABLE was in the Channel Fleet during August 1914 - March 1915, at the Dardanelles where she supported the landing on "X" Beach (25 April), March - May 1915, was attached to the Italian Fleet at Taranto, May - November 1915, and helped in the defence of the Suez Canal from November 1915 - March 1916; ROYAL OAK was present at the Battle of Jutland, at the naval action of 19 August 1916 and at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet. Together with an ms letter (3pp) written to him from his brother whilst serving in No 79 Squadron RAF (April 1918), and a ts obituary and photograph of him.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1977-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HMS IMPLACABLE Royal Navy 1st Battlecruiser Squadron battleship (1914) HMS ROYAL OAK battleship (1899) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tate, H R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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