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Description: | Detailed and interesting ts memoir (238pp) of his service as a midshipman in the battleships HMS RUSSELL, 1914 - 1915, KING EDWARD VII, 1915 - 1916, and HMS ORION, 1916 - 1917, and as a junior officer in the minesweeper HMS DAHLIA, 1917 - 1918, the battleship HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA, 1918, the destroyer HMS VALENTINE in the Baltic, 1919, and the light cruiser HMS CALLIOPE on the North America and West Indies Station, 1920, before acting as the King's Messenger to France and Ireland in 1921. The memoir, together with a series of contemporary letters, covers the sinking of HMS KING EDWARD VII (January 1916), the Battle of Jutland and the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, and there are also a few documents concerning the loss of the yacht CALANTHE during the evacuation from Greece in 1941.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1976-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brass, J E P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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