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Description: | British clerk served aboard HMS Amethyst and HMS Arethusa in North Sea, 1913-1915; present during Battle of Dogger Bank, 1915; served aboard HMS Endymion in Mediterranean and off Gallipoli, 1915-1916; served aboard HMS Grafton in Mediterranean, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Background to recruitment as assistant clerk from Royal Mathematical School into Royal Navy, 1913: role of RMS; promotion prospects. Aspects of period as assistant paymaster aboard HMS Blenheim based at Harwich, 6/1913-9/1913: learning office duties; writing up report for court martial. Aspects of period as assistant secretary to Commodore Lambert aboard HMS Amethyst and HMS Arethusa, 9/1913-7/1915: turbine propulsion; East coast patrols and coaling ship; aspects of countering German mining activity in North Sea; wardroom furniture; conditions and morale; role defending East Coast. Recollections of Battle of Dogger Bank, 1915, including sinking of Blucher and rescue of German seamen.
REEL 2 Continues: further recollections of Battle of Dogger Bank, 1915, including treatment of rescued Germans and British tactical errors; story illustrating inadequate gun shields on HMS Arethusa on commission; story of officer casualty. Various aspects of period aboard HMS Endymion off Gallipoli, Turkey, 7/1915-12/1915: torpedo blisters; prior voyage out; story illustrating secrecy and confusion in transporting troops from Mudros, Lemnos to Gallipoli, Turkey, 8/1915; consequent delays following landing at Suvla, 6/8/1915-7/8/1915; view of situation ashore, 7/8/1915; opinion of Stopford.
REEL 3 Continues: later flight in aircraft; situation and effect of lack of briefing; amusing story concerning timid parson; attack of dysentery and enteric; fly problem; rest accommodation provided for army officers and Australian officers insistence on returning prior to attack; visits ashore carrying messages. Various aspects of service aboard HMS Grafton in Mediterranean, 1916-1918: story of receiving motorcycle retrieved from stores abandoned at Helles by trawler; period based at Crete, Greece; stories illustrating contacts with Japanese, Italian and French Navies.
REEL 4 Continues: Aspects of period at Crete and off Salonika, Greece; creation of harbour at Stavros; naval bombardments; duties as captain's clerk; malaria attack; question of movements; return to GB, 11/1918. Aspects of post war career: posting in Chatham dockyard; communications with GB, 1915-1918; continuing malaria attacks. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tugman, Ralph Edward | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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