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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms account (25pp) describing his service as Navigating Officer of the cruiser HMS EDGAR (Grand Fleet), 1914 and June 1915 - summer 1917, referring to the dull monotony of patrol, her brief transfer to the Northern Patrol, service at the Dardanelles in support of the Cape Helles landings, his fellow officers including Captain Douglas L Dent and Lieutenant W O Hozier (Churchill's brother-in-law), their shelling duties, the 'lack of proper liaison between Army and Navy' at Gallipoli, their voyage to Crete and then Syros to support pro-Venezelos factions in the Eastern Mediterranean before proceeding to the river Struma to support the 81st Infantry Brigade of the Salonika Army (January 1917); briefly as Executive Officer of HMS DIGBY (10th Cruiser Squadron), January - June 1915, describing the demanding routine and bad weather conditions resulting in the destruction of HMS CLAN MCNAUGHTON; and then in HMS THUNDERER (summer 1917 - 1918) moving from Scapa Flow to Rosyth. Together with a microfilm copy of an ms account (5pp) describing his part as Staff Officer (Movements) in the Portsmouth Command, October 1942 - October 1944, in Operation 'Overlord', the Normandy landings; miscellaneous First World War papers including ts orders (5pp) for the Covering Squadron during the evacuation from the Gallipoli peninsula; lecture notes about his work in HMS THUNDERER; and his service certificates and commendations.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | battleship (1911) HMS DIGBY cruiser (1890) armed merchant cruiser (1912) Royal Navy HMS THUNDERER HMS EDGAR | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bowen, H T | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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