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Description: | Ms letter (8pp), undated but early January 1918, written by a subaltern in the Monmouthshire Regiment to his wife from the 21st General Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt, and giving a very graphic account of how he had been on board the troopship ARAGON off Alexandria on 30 December 1917 when she was torpedoed by a submarine, had been 'one of the last to leave the ship', and eventually been picked up by a boat from the destroyer HMS ATTACK and then, when the ATTACK herself was either torpedoed or mined while assisting in the rescue effort, helped to row the boat for some ten miles, although in a very exhausted state, until they reached Alexandria harbour; together with a photograph of him in uniform and of HMS ATTACK sinking and a presscutting from THE DAILY MIRROR (31 January 1918) announcing the loss of the ARAGON.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2006-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Swash, F C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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