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Description: | British seaman served as signaller aboard HMS Birmingham during Battle of Jutland, 31/May-1/Jun/1916
REEL 1: Aspects of training as seaman with Royal Naval Div and Royal Naval Reserve in GB, 1915-1916: story of volunteering for Royal Naval Division; training at Crystal Palace; transferred to signal section of Royal Naval Reserve, 12/1915; description of training as signaller including Morse and semaphore; drafted to light cruiser HMS Birmingham, 26/May/1916; opinion of training; question of naval experience; problem of seasickness; role of Birmingham in 3rd Light Cruiser Sqdn; memory of Commodore Goodenough. Recollections of operations as signaller aboard HMS Birmingham during Battle of Jutland, 31/May-1/Jun/1916: description of position in crow's nest and duty as lookout; question of recognising ships; memory of slipping on vomit; relieved from crow's nest and description of duties logging signals on bridge; problem of reading own handwriting; role of Sqdn screening battle cruisers; memory of ship Queen Mary exploding; memory of shell passing between funnels of Birmingham; description of destroyers hit by German shellfire at night. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Radford, Victor | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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