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Description: | Ms account (57pp) written in 1919, with an edited ts transcript (29pp) and copies of a number of related presscuttings and photographs, covering his service as a Marconi wireless operator from July 1916 (when aged seventeen) - December 1919 and describing in particular his experiences as a survivor of the torpedoing of the liner ARABIA in the Mediterranean (6 November 1916); of HM hospital ship DOVER CASTLE in which he served in the Mediterranean from December 1916 until she was torpedoed off the Algerian coast (26 May 1917); of the SS BRODSTONE, a cargo vessel torpedoed in the South West Approaches (15 August 1917) when he was rescued by a Q-ship that was subsequently involved in an abortive attempt to salve the liner DELPHIC; and of the SS KUT SANG which he joined in September 1917 and which made a series of voyages, principally in the Mediterranean, till she was torpedoed while in convoy (29 April 1918) and he was rescued by an American warship; as well as giving an account of his voyages as a wireless operator in the liner BERWICK CASTLE (February - October 1919) which ended when she was destroyed by fire in harbour in Mombasa, East Africa. There were only a few casualties on the first three occasions when he was sunk, but Durrant was among the small number of survivors from the loss of the KUT SANG.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1995-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Durrant, C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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