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Description: | British seaman served as armourer aboard HMS Resolution in GB coastal waters, 1918-1919
REEL 1 Background in Glassel and Middlesborough, 1900-1918: family; education. Enlistment and training with Royal Navy in GB, 1918: reasons for volunteering for Royal Navy; training at Devonport; scuttling of German Fleet at Scapa Flow, 1919; salvaging of the Baden; allocation to airmen's mess; living conditions on board; Armistice Day celebrations; dangerous jobs undertaken on board; effect of gunnery on his hearing; accident to German seaman on board after scuttling of German Fleet; reasons for leaving Royal Navy, 11/1919; Navy Weeks around British coast.
REEL 2 Continues: work maintaining guns; sing-songs and conversation on board; how Alcock and Brown were put aboard HMS Revenge; supervision of work; rates of pay and ability to save money; erroneous listing as deserter; use of Agnes Weston hostel in Plymouth. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Fordyce, Robert Macpherson | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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