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Description: | Papers covering his naval career from entry as a boy in 1902 until retirement in 1945, including official service records, an ms journal (29pp) covering his service in the Dover Patrol in the destroyers HMS MERMAID (August 1914 - December 1915) and HMS AFRIDI (December 1915 - December 1916) and in the destroyer HMS FORESTER in Home waters, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (January 1917 - January 1919) including the liberation of Major General Sir Charles Townshend in October 1918, an ms diary (48pp) kept as a Group Officer in the minesweeping trawler SOLON operating in the Thames estuary and the southern North Sea (October 1939 - February 1940) and official papers concerning his appointment as Minesweeping Maintenance Officer under the Commander Minesweepers and Patrols in HMS LYNX at Dover, February 1941 - June 1943.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1982-09-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gillett, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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