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Description: | Ms/ts diary and letters home covering his service on the Anglo-Egyptian-Italian Mission to the Senussi in Cyrenaica, July - September 1916, whose purpose was to end a Senussi revolt against the Italians in Libya; together with a brief account (4pp) describing his visits to former enemy ports in the Adriatic while serving as British Liaison Officer with Italian Naval Intelligence in November 1918; an ms diary plus transcript (49pp) covering his service as an RNVR officer in the Intelligence Division of the Italian Admiralty in Rome, May - December 1915; and ts transcriptions of a series of informative and well-written letters exchanged from 1936 - 1941 between himself, now a well-informed and widely travelled businessman living in Buckinghamshire, and Lieutenant D W Leggatt RN, who was lost in the submarine HMS USK in May 1941; and an interesting letter written by an able seaman in the battle cruiser HMS HOOD shortly before she was sunk in May 1941.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1982-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Haslam, W H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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