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Description: | British seaman served as stoker and coxswain with Royal Navy, 1912-1945
REEL 1: Background in Devonport and Southampton, GB: reason for joining navy; father's service with Royal Navy. Aspects of training with Royal Navy in GB, 1912-1914: training on HMS Impregnable; opinion of conditions; memories of Devonport; activities with Barrack Boys Brigade; education in Southampton; story of recruitment in Southampton; medical; posted to HMS Impregnable, Portsmouth; baths; issued with uniform, clothes brush and prayer book; classed as first class boy; sea training on HMS Endymion; story of towing ship; gunnery training in Ireland; to Portland; duties as seaman stoker; memory of fleet in channel at outbreak of war, 8/1914; anti-submarine measures; friendly fire incident. Aspects of operations aboard HMS Britannia and HMS Llewellyn, 1914-1919: story of running aground in Firth of Forth and salvage operation; duties in paint ship in Newcastle; damage to ship and repairs; wooden bridge replaced with metal; memory of Zeppelin raid; qualified as acting ST; Sheerness; paid off at Portsmouth and posted to HMS Llewellyn, Mar/1917; shelled by German ship; to Dover for repairs; paid off at Chatham; returned to Portsmouth Barracks; posted to HMS Undine, Glasgow, 4/1917; description of surrender of German fleet at Scapa Flow; story of taking confiscating German landing boats. Aspects of service with Royal Navy, 1919-1945: period in Ireland, 1919-1921; posted to HMS Antrim.
REEL 2 Continues: role in experimental wireless station aboard HMS Yarmouth in Mediterranean ; promoted petty officer, 1922; relations with officers; attitude to promotion; problem with left eye; qualified as torpedo coxswain; duties as coxswain aboard HMS Worcester; period at PC74 asdic school, Portland; left and rejoined navy, 1936; pay; service with Palestine Patrol stopping Jewish immigrant ships; memories of outbreak of First and Second World Wars; escort duties; story of engagement with U-42 and rescuing survivors; duties based in Scotland. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Baynham, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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