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Description: | Ts transcript (71pp) of his diary covering his service as a Sub Lieutenant and then Lieutenant in HMS UNITY (4th Destroyer Flotilla, Grand Fleet) in Home and northern waters, July 1914 - April 1915, and as a Lieutenant in HMS C23, 7th Submarine Flotilla based on the Firth of Forth, from May - December 1915, with many general comments about the progress of the war at sea and on land and a description of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla's night action with some German destroyers at the time of the raid on Scarborough (16 December 1914); together with ts transcripts (9pp) of eight quite vivid letters, dated June - September 1915, from his brothers Henry and Christopher, who were serving on the Western Front as subalterns in the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers (4th Division) and the 3rd Battalion Border Regiment (7th Division) respectively.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1978-12-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | destroyer (1913) Royal Navy HMS UNITY | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Aylmer, Edward Arthur | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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