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Description: | Ts memoir (179pp), written between 1965 and 1970, covering his training as a cadet at the Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth (1911 - 1914); his service as a midshipman in the battleship HMS CANOPUS (August 1914 - April 1916) including her deployment as a guardship in the South Atlantic and South American waters where she was involved marginally in the Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands and with the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron during the Dardanelles operations on patrol and bombardment duties in support of the Allied landings and then on the Smyrna patrol; his brief service as a Sub Lieutenant in HMS BENBOW (4th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet) including the Battle of Jutland (May 1916 - January 1917); his appointments as a junior officer in the destroyer HMS LOCHINVAR, which was attached to the Dover Patrol and then the Devonport Escort Flotilla (January - December 1917), HMS RIVAL in the 13th Destroyer Flotilla (Grand Fleet) and the Devonport Escort Flotilla again (January - June 1918) and the Dover Patrol destroyer HMS MASTIFF (July - December 1918); his further training at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and on Lieutenant's courses (1919); his service as a junior officer in the Mediterranean Fleet light cruiser HMS CERES including operations in the Black Sea in support of the White Russians (December 1919 - September 1920), his qualification as a specialist gunnery officer (1921 - 1922); command of the Royal Australian Navy Gunnery School at Flinders (1923 - 1925), and appointments as gunnery officer, in HMS MONTROSE, of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet (1926 - 1928) and as 1st Lieutenant, and gunnery officer, of the submarine depot ship HMS MEDWAY which was under orders for service on the China Station (1928 - 1929). The memoir includes interesting observations on life as a young midshipman during the First World War, on the relative monotony of destroyer service in Home waters and on the qualities of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes.
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Catalogue date 2001-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Young, R T | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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