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Description: | Ms Midshipman's Journal (82pp) with charts and diagrams recording his service from August 1914 - May 1915 in the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES which was initially based on Portland (August - November) and employed as part of the escorting force for troopships crossing to France, was then based on Sheerness (November - December) where he witnessed the destruction of the battleship HMS BULWARK by an internal explosion and the flight of the Taube which bombed the United Kingdom on Christmas Day, but returned to Portland in January before sailing to the Eastern Mediterranean in March where she was first detailed for bombardment duties in support of the minesweepers working off the Dardanelles and then landed troops and provided supporting fire for the operations at Gallipoli from 25 April onwards; together with a photocopied ts account (4pp) of the landings at Anzac based on his Journal entries and two albums mostly containing his private photographs of British ships and naval personnel in the Mediterranean, 1915 - 1916.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2003-10-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Machin, N P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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