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Description: | 5 ms letters (46pp in total, three written on 'YMCA with His Majesty's Fleet' notepaper) written by a nineteen year old Ordinary Seaman in the Tyneside Division RNVR to his girlfriend in his home town of Bradford, Yorkshire in September - October 1917 informing her that he was among a draft of naval ratings in the RN Barracks Chatham ordered to join the cruiser HMS LANCASTER on the Pacific Station and describing his journey by train from Chatham to Liverpool, his passage across the Atlantic on the liner JUSTICIA, with references to the weather, social activities, conditions and his duties on board, and his rail journey across Canada from Halifax, Nova Scotia to British Columbia, including, in particular, his favourable impressions of Montreal, Winnipeg and the Canadian countryside and his perceptions of the contrasts between the Canadian way of life and his civilian life in Bradford; together with his official record of service in the RNVR (RNV-10) from April 1917 - April 1919, his protection and identity certificate (S 1306) on his demobilisation and a colour-tinted postcard photograph of him in uniform.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2006-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Firth, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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