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Description: | Ms letter (2pp), with ts transcript (3pp), written home to his parents while serving as a warrant officer in HMS VANGUARD (4th Battle Squadron), 12 June 1916, giving his impressions of the Battle of Jutland as seen from his bakehouse on the upper deck, where he was proving 360lb of dough, and describing the various phases of the action, commenting on the ship's company - "everyone I met seemed perfectly cool ... in fact we had a gramophone playing some of the time..." - and setting out his views on the outcome of the battle: "They (the Germans) have only scratched Britain's Sure Shield. We hope to strike home next time if the elements are favourable to us." The letter is accompanied by a photograph of Greenway in uniform; two photographs of memorials to the ship's company of HMS VANGUARD, which was destroyed by an internal explosion at Scapa Flow in July 1917 in which Greenway was killed; a photograph of one of the two survivors of the disaster; and a photograph and presscuttings relating to E S Foster, Greenway's half brother, who served in the Royal Navy from 1906 to 1943.
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Catalogue date 1978-10-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Greenway, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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