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Description: | British rating served aboard HMS Edgar in Mediterranean, 1915-1916; served with Signal Station on Imbros, 1917-1918; served aboard HMS Talisman in North Sea, 1918; served aboard HMS Ajax in Black Sea, 1920s. Served as officer with Special Investigation Branch in Newcastle area, 1939-1945
REEL 1 Background in Bramley, Leeds, 1898-1914: education; work as woollen merchant's apprentice, 1911-1914; question of approach of war; father's refusal of permission to join Royal Navy, 1912. Aspects of recruitment as boy seaman to Royal Navy at recruiting office, Leeds, 8/9/1914. Aspects of period training at HMS Ganges, 9/1914-3/1915: haircut; mast head training; duties as captain's messenger; bullying by petty officer. Recollections of initial period as boy seaman aboard HMS Edgar, 3/1915-4/1915: messing system; conditions; duties as captain's messenger and action stations position on bridge; holystoning deck; ability at knots; rough weather whilst accompanying E11 to Gibraltar, 3/1915. Recollections of period off Gallipoli, 1915: coaling ship at Mudros, Lemnos; view of landings at Helles, 25/4/1915; question of effectiveness of bombardments and later use of land observers; prior signal training; early promotion to ordinary seaman.
REEL 2 Continues: opinion of captain; story of crew's mutinous refusal to coal ship due to withdrawal of canteen privileges, reinstatement of privileges and precautionary measures taken whilst at Mudros; relationship with bosuns; story of landing to place lamp on top of cliff to act as bearing for monitor bombardments as part of Operation Drama, 8/1915; evacuation, 12/1915-1/1916. Recollections of period in Mediterranean, 1916-1918: signal duties at Salonika; period at Crete; test to pass for able seaman, 1916; recollections of manning signal station on Imbros, 1917-1918, including reports of Goeben breakout, 1917, conditions of service and duties; return to GB. Aspects of period at Gunnery School, Chatham, 1918: high marks achieved and consequent further course; story of explaining range finder to admiral. Aspects of period as gunner aboard HMS Talisman based at Rosyth, 1918: position as able seaman passed as petty officer.
REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of surrender of High Seas Fleet, 11/1918. Aspects of period in charge of maintenance parties aboard twelve decommissioned destroyers at Chatham, 1919. Aspects of voyage on HMS Centurion to Malta and transfer to newly commissioned HMS Ajax, 1920s. Aspects of period in Black Sea, 1920s: role; attack of flu and period in hospital in Turkey. Return to GB and invalided out, 1926. Aspects of post-war career in Post Office. Recollections of service with Special Investigation Branch, 1939-1945: call up and intitial movements; passing officer's course and posting to SIB; duties based at Jesmond Dene, Newcastle; attachment to Guards Armoured Div; stories related to local policeman. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hart, Peter M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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