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Description: | Microfilm of an ms diary (140pp), June 1916 - January 1918, recording his service as an Able Seaman in the light cruiser HMS ASTRAEA including his journey from Devonport to join her on the Cape Station, arrival at Simonstown and reaction to conditions on board, his difficulties in adjusting to service below decks, the removal of the ship at the end of July 1916 to West Africa to serve off the Cameroons, the problems of serving in the heat and his criticisms of the ship's mostly RNR officers, together with an 11pp ms translation of the diary of a German officer, Lieutenant Northangel, who served in the German Defence Corps in Duala in the German Cameroons, July - September 1914, giving a useful picture of the German preparations for the defence of their colony.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1997-09-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stamp, C A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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