Description
Object description
Partial records of his naval career comprising his flimsies, 1916 - 1937; 12 ms letters to his mother covering his service as a midshipman in the battleship HMS GLORY on the North American Station, August - September 1914, and at the Dardanelles, June - December 1915, including his eye-witness account of the evacuation from Suvla Bay; 15 further ms letters to his mother while stationed in the cruiser HMS DURBAN on the China Station, January - April 1927, mostly relating to the defence of the European settlements at Shanghai against possible attack by rival Chinese armies; ms letter to his wife, when Captain of the cruiser HMS AURORA, describing the demolitions expedition to the island of Spitzbergen, August - September 1941; and a file of signals concerning the successful action of Force K under his command in AURORA against an Italian convoy in the Mediterranean on 8 - 9 November 1941.
Content description
Partial records of his naval career comprising his flimsies, 1916 - 1937; 12 ms letters to his mother covering his service as a midshipman in the battleship HMS GLORY on the North American Station, August - September 1914, and at the Dardanelles, June - December 1915, including his eye-witness account of the evacuation from Suvla Bay; 15 further ms letters to his mother while stationed in the cruiser HMS DURBAN on the China Station, January - April 1927, mostly relating to the defence of the European settlements at Shanghai against possible attack by rival Chinese armies; ms letter to his wife, when Captain of the cruiser HMS AURORA, describing the demolitions expedition to the island of Spitzbergen, August - September 1941; and a file of signals concerning the successful action of Force K under his command in AURORA against an Italian convoy in the Mediterranean on 8 - 9 November 1941.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1980-04-08