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Description: | British seaman served aboard HMS Enchantress in Mediterranean and Adriatic; served aboard HMS Canada in North Sea, 1914-1918, including Battle of Jutland, 5/1916
REEL 1: Aspects of training with Royal Navy in GB, 1910-1914: attitude to naval life and discipline; opinion of instructors on HMS Ganges; punishments; pay; various memories of Winston Churchill. Aspects of operations aboard HMS Enchantress in Mediterranean and Adriatic. Aspects of operations aboard HMS Canada in North Sea, 1914-1918: description of action at Dogger Bank; damage to German ships; survivors; story of HMS Crecy; messing arrangements; opinion of petty officers; story of son.
REEL 2 Continues: description of role in operations during Battle of Jutland, 6/1916; story of firing at Zeppelin; description of surrender of German fleet, 1918; story of misfiring gun; loading and firing of guns; preference for destroyers. Aspects of period aboard HMS Calcutta, 1919-1921: opinion of captain; boxing matches; shore leave. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Minchin, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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