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Description: | British seaman served aboard HMS Vincent in North Sea, 1915-1919; present at Battle of Jutland, 31/5/1916
REEL 1: Background in Eastbourne, 1899-1914: education; employment in bakery; problem of lack of food; memory of outbreak of war, 8/1914. Aspects of training with Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in GB, 1915: story of enlistment and training in Canada Department at Crystal Palace, 4/1915; story of roof of Crystal Palace painted to resemble lake. Recollections of operations as seaman aboard HMS Vincent in North Sea, 1915-1918: description of duties in bakery and officers' galley; question of age; description of sinking of HMS Natal; question of circumcision; role at action stations in transporting shells to guns; description of role of HMS Vincent during Battle of Jutland.
REEL 2 Continues: description of burials at sea; memory of Iron Duke upturned in sea; question of sinking of HMS Hampshire; story of sinking of HMS Vanguard and role in recovering bodies, 1917; question of leave; attitude to naval life and comradeship; role of HMS Vincent in escorting surrendered German Fleet into Firth of Forth; reaction to scuttling of German fleet at Scapa Flow. Demobilization and return to civilian employment in bakery, 4/1919. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Lyn E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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