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Description: | British submarine officer served as liaison officer with Russian Navy after revolution in Petrograd, Russia, 1917
REEL 1 Recollections of service as submarine officer acting liaison officer aboard Russian cruiser attached to British submarines in Batlic Sea, 1917: situation following revolution and presence of lower deck seamen in offices of Russian Naval General Staff in Petrograd; signs of revolution and lack of discipline aboard ship; power of lower deck revolutionary committee in running ship; story of taking officers' mess silver to prevent its confiscation; dispute over picture of George V mistaken for Czar Nicholas II in British officers' mess; arrest of aristocratic Russian officer; close escape from being attacked when mistaken for Russian officer; situation and scuttling of British submarines following of Brest Litovsk armistice, 1/1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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