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Description: | Ts transcript (12pp) of a diary kept by a Signalman RNVR with very brief entries covering his mobilisation, passage to Hong Kong on the liner MALWA and service in the battleship HMS TRIUMPH while she was based on Hong Kong and during her passage to the Eastern Mediterranean (August 1914 - February 1915), a series of slightly longer entries during her service with the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, particularly recording the bombardments of the Dardanelles forts, the attempt to force the Narrows - 'the big splash' - on 18 March, operations against Smyrna, the Gallipoli landings and the torpedoing and sinking of TRIUMPH (February - May 1915), further brief entries covering his service at the Dardanelles in the depot ship HMS OSIRIS, in hospital in Lemnos, in the battleship HMS GLORY and ashore at Suvla Bay up to its evacuation (June - December 1915) and concluding with a summary entry covering his service in Egypt up to March 1916, in the light cruiser HMS VINDICTIVE in North Russia (1916 - 1917), the minesweeper HMS SHIRLEY in Home waters until she was mined and sunk and the Grand Fleet destroyer HMS TOBAGO (1917 - February 1919); together with copies of a wedding day photograph and a group photograph in both of which he appears in uniform.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2006-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sexton, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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