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Description: | An album including photographs relating to the service of an unidentified Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer on the seaplane carrier HMS ARK ROYAL during 1914-1916. Subjects covered include preparing a Wight Seaplane for flight at Blyth in 1914 and operations in the Aegean and Dardanelles during 1915. These include seaplane No.1438 on the deck of ARK ROYAL off Xeros; the 12-pounder gun used for anti-aircraft defence onboard the ARK ROYAL; local women employed at Tenedos aerodrome in 1915; a French armoured cruiser off Enos, local scenes on Lemnos and named RNAS officers - Allsop, Bromet, Garnett and Torrington; local boats around HMS DORIS and HMS MINERVA off Kalymnos, Kephalo lighthouse and off-duty RNAS officers (Bromet, Buster, Garnett, Kilner, Park and Strain) and a chaplain and two Royal Navy officers on board the MINERVA in the Gulf of Iero. Also included are a number of photographs taken at Imbros aerodrome during 1915 showing seaplanes including No.136 on the beach; the tent serving as the Mess/Ward Room; a general view of the aerodrome; RNAS officers (Whitehead, Kilner, Dunning, Strain) at tea and Whitehead and Strain outside the 'Bomb Room'. There are also a number of photographs of action off Gaba Tepe/Kabatepe showing HMS MAJESTIC and other battleships under fire (either during the ANZAC landings on 25 April 1915 or during the attack on the Turkish position at Gaba Tepe on 4 May 1915); the balloon ship HMS MANICA; HMS TRIUMPH firing and named officers on HMS ARK ROYAL - Allsop, Bromet, Garnett and Kilner. From Cape Helles there are photographs of a patrolling destroyer and waves breaking over the upturned hull of HMS MAJESTIC (taken at some point after her sinking on 27 May 1915). The collection also includes informal group photographs of RNAS officers at Calshot in 1915, the named officers are: Bailey, Beamman, Evans, Hodsoll, McCarty, Morgan, Reid, Sowray and Whittaker. The final military service photographs in the collection relate to India in 1919 and include one informal group shot taken at Deolali.
A number of family and holiday photographs are also contained in the album. These cover Eastbourne, Oxted and Southend in 1920, Dawlish and Hastings in 1921 and Bournemouth, Eastbourne and Babbacombe in 1922. There are also some images of family members taken in South Hackney. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Naval Air Service 1914-1918 naval aviation TRIUMPH (HMS) Gallipoli 1915-1916 Royal Naval Air Service ARK ROYAL (HMS) aircraft carrier (1914) MAJESTIC (HMS) Royal Navy 1914-1918 Dardanelles Ottoman Empire Gallipoli 1915 Royal Navy MANICA (HMS) First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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