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Description: | Photocopies of an ms remark book (17pp), with related ts notes (5pp) and presscuttings, compiled while he was serving as a Sub Lieutenant in the gunboat HMS THISTLE on the Yangtse River on the China Station, March 1910 - early 1912, with particular reference to the characteristics of their principal ports of call and to the 'anti-foreigner' riots at Hankow in 1911; and of an ms diary (26pp), with 8 illustrations, covering his service as a watch keeping Lieutenant in the battleship HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, the flagship of the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, at the Dardanelles from February to May 1915, with good descriptions of the naval bombardments of the Turkish forts, the attempt to force the Narrows on 18 March and the landing of the first troops on the Peninsula on 25 April, including some interesting comments and criticisms about the conduct and progress of the Gallipoli operations. Together with photocopies of humorous poems and memoranda concerning aspects of naval life, 1911 - 1943.
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Catalogue date 1985-01-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Claris, D J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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