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Description: | Personal diaries and a copy of the official 1915 mission diary covering his service as a Captain's Clerk in the armoured cruiser HMS DEFENCE, mostly on the Mediterranean Station, from July 1914 - January 1915; as Secretary to Rear Admiral E C T Troubridge on the British Naval Mission to Serbia, January 1915 - January 1916; as a Secretary's Clerk to Vice Admiral Bayly in Ireland, May - June 1916; as a Secretary's Clerk in the Grand Fleet battleship HMS ROYAL OAK, June - August 1916; and as Secretary to Admiral Troubridge when on the personal staff of Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia, based at Salonika and Vrbeni, September 1916 - November 1918. The collection also includes an eye-witness account of the Battle of Coronel by an officer in HMS GLASGOW.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1976-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Fitch, H M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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