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Description: | Undated ts account (27pp) of naval and combined operations in German East Africa during 1916 and 1917 written by the RNR officer in command of the armed whaler HMS ECHO, one of the units in the squadron under the Commander-in-Chief, Cape Station, with particular reference to the ship's deployment, on several occasions under fire, during a sweep of the harbour at Kilwa and a successful attack on a blockade runner at Sudi Bay (April 1916), the assault on Dar-es-Salaam when he received the town's surrender (September 1916), surveys of the Mohoro and Rufiji rivers (February - March 1917) and operations on the Lukeledi river during the assault on Lindi (June 1917). The narrative was extensively used by the author in writing his published memoirs CHANNELS, CLOVES AND COCONUTS (The Western Press, 1955).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1998-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Charlewood, C J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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