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Description: | Photocopy (5pp) of a brief but interesting ts memoir entitled "Account of the Action on May 31st 1916", written shortly after the Battle of Jutland in which he served as a Midshipman in HMS LION, the flagship of the Battle Cruiser Fleet, giving his impressions of the engagement as seen from his action station in the foretop, emphasising the fiercely contested battle cruiser action and the extent of the damage, notably to Q Turret, suffered by the LION; together with a ts account (1p) written in 1979 of the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, when he was serving as a Sub-Lieutenant in HMS WESTCOTT, the guard destroyer at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, and was one of the first officers to notice that the German ships were being abandoned. HMS WESTCOTT was almost powerless to prevent this "ignominious ending", but Combe did make an abortive attempt to save the HINDENBURG.
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Catalogue date 1979-04-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Combe, A B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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