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Description: | Ts transcription (25pp) of a diary kept while serving as a Captain covering the period 1 January - 31 December 1915 and his commands in the Auxiliary Patrol, as a retired flag officer in his sixties who had volunteered in 1914 for re-employment with a temporary commission in the Royal Naval Reserve, of the armed yacht AGATHA on anti-submarine patrols and shipping examination duties in the North Sea off Cromarty (January - May 1915) and of the armed yacht IOLANDA on similar duties in the Bristol and Irish Channels (September - October 1915) and the western Mediterranean (November - December 1915). The diary entries include several interesting references to disciplinary problems with the officers, skippers and ratings in the Auxiliary Patrol.
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Catalogue date 1975-09-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Marx, J L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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