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Description: | Photocopies of: a ts account (3pp), undated but probably written during the First World War, recording his experiences as a signalman in HMS VALIANT (5th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet) on Christmas Day 1916 when, in keeping with naval traditions, the ship's messdecks were extensively decorated, ratings appeared in fancy dress, the Captain did his rounds and all the officers and ratings engaged in various forms of entertainment throughout the day; and of an ms letter (8pp), written to his fiancee at intervals on 21 November 1918, giving his impressions, as Secretary's Clerk on the staff of Commodore (F), commanding Grand Fleet Destroyer Flotillas, in the light cruiser HMS CASTOR, of the surrender that day of the German High Seas Fleet and commenting in particular on how the German warships had essentially been 'in good formation' when first sighted, his own feelings about the surrender - '...pity and contempt, disappointment, pride, and thankfulness, all strive for the mastery...' - and the extensive media presence in the ships of the Grand Fleet.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2007-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilson, G F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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