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Description: | Photocopied ms memoir (50pp) covering his pre-war childhood in Kent and career in the Merchant Navy, 1909 - 1917 and 1920 - 1931, with useful descriptions of conditions and life at sea generally and details also of his service in the RNAS and RAF (eventually as a Second Lieutenant) operating from the seaplane carrier HMS NAIRANA on anti-submarine patrols in the North Sea, and after the Armistice in North Russia on bombing and reconnaissance missions, 1917 - 1920, together with a resume of his career as the owner of a boat building firm and later as a deep sea pilot, 1931 - 1945.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1987-09-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bridge, Charles Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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