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Description: | British seaman served with Merchant Navy aboard SS Ceramic and other ships, 1913-1918
REEL 1: Family background; memory of outbreak of war, 1914. Recollections of period in Merchant Navy, 1913-1918: nature of duties as able seaman on troop ships to US and Australia; conditions on ships and opinion of rations; action stations and role in gun crew; attitude to submarines; memory of first journey on Australian cargo boat; reasons for joining Merchant Navy; conditions of troop ships; memory of burials at sea; daily routine on troop ship including gunnery practise; opinion of accommodation and rations.
REEL 2 Continues: question of pay and cost of uniform; White Star Line cap; story of encountering ice-bergs; memory of painting mast on SS Ceramic. Post-war employment and question of pension. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Maddocks, Graham | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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