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Description: | An extensive collection of papers recording his service in the Royal Navy, 1909 - 1945, of particular interest being his eyewitness accounts of the Battle of the Falkland Islands (8 December 1914) at which he was serving as a Clerk in the battle cruiser HMS INVINCIBLE, his photographic records of the Battle of Jutland (from the cruiser HMS BIRMINGHAM) and of the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet (from the battle cruiser HMS LION), his private diary covering his service in the battleship HMS NELSON at the time of the Invergordon Mutiny, September 1931, and his private diary and action log covering his service in the battleship HMS WARSPITE, December 1942 - May 1944, with particular reference to operations in the Mediterranean, July - September 1943.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1976-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Duckworth, A D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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