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Description: | Ms diary (15pp), kept during his service in HMS ARK ROYAL (February - March 1915), describing the bombardment of Cape Helles and the Dardanelles, the involvement of HMS MAJESTIC, HMS VENGEANCE and HMS AGAMMEMNON in the bombardment, a list of the planes that took off from his ship and the success of their observation missions, the violence done to the corpses of soldiers found in the vicinity and a preliminary attempt to storm the Gallipoli coast (7 March 1915); also included is a translation of a letter headed 'To English Sailors' from the Crimean Red Army, arguing that the proletarian sailors of the United Kingdom should stop persecuting the revolutionaries of Russia, Spurgeon's first aid certificate from the Red Cross (December 1940) and a letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace in recognition of Spurgeon's wife taking in an evacuee during the Second World War.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Spurgeon, T C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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