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Description: | Records of his service as a midshipman in the battleship HMS GOLIATH (1914 - 1915) comprising: two ms picture postcards to his mother (April and May 1915) from the Dardanelles; a ms letter (4pp) from his father, Reverend W H Westall, saying that all at home were relieved to hear that he had survived the torpedoing of HMS GOLIATH (May 1915); a letter from the Accountant General of the Navy asking for a list of the books Westall lost when GOLIATH was sunk (June 1915); a ms memorandum (3pp) by Surgeon P Burrowes Kelly describing how Westall had behaved after he had been brought for treatment following the loss of the GOLIATH (February 1918); a group photograph of the Blake Term of 1912, Royal Naval College, Osborne (n.d.); and a portrait photograph of HMS GOLIATH.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | battleship (1898) HMS GOLIATH Royal Navy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Westall, Rupert Vyvyan Hawksley | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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