Description
Object description
Ms Midshipman's Journal (ca 280pp) covering his service in the Mediterranean Fleet cruiser HMS DEVONSHIRE (August - December 1933 and April 1934), in the Home Fleet battleship HMS BARHAM (January - March 1934, May - December 1934 and April - November 1935) and the Home Fleet destroyer HMS CRUSADER (January - March 1935) with the usual details of exercises and gunnery practices and with useful references to morale in Home Fleet ships (June/July 1935), King George V's Silver Jubilee Review of the Fleet (July 1935) and BARHAM's deployment in the Mediterranean Fleet because of the Abyssinian crisis (September - November 1935); an ms account (28pp) and ts official documents (4pp) about his responsibility in October 1945, under the Naval Officer In Charge Saigon, for establishing and running convoys, manned largely by Japanese military and naval personnel, to carry vital foodstuffs from Phnom Penh in Cambodia by canal and river to Saigon in defiance of a nationalist blockade of the city; and an ms draft report (29pp) recording his arrangements in December 1945 for the defence, again mainly by Japanese naval personnel, of military stores and other key points in the Camranh area of Cambodia against the nationalists
Content description
Ms Midshipman's Journal (ca 280pp) covering his service in the Mediterranean Fleet cruiser HMS DEVONSHIRE (August - December 1933 and April 1934), in the Home Fleet battleship HMS BARHAM (January - March 1934, May - December 1934 and April - November 1935) and the Home Fleet destroyer HMS CRUSADER (January - March 1935) with the usual details of exercises and gunnery practices and with useful references to morale in Home Fleet ships (June/July 1935), King George V's Silver Jubilee Review of the Fleet (July 1935) and BARHAM's deployment in the Mediterranean Fleet because of the Abyssinian crisis (September - November 1935); an ms account (28pp) and ts official documents (4pp) about his responsibility in October 1945, under the Naval Officer In Charge Saigon, for establishing and running convoys, manned largely by Japanese military and naval personnel, to carry vital foodstuffs from Phnom Penh in Cambodia by canal and river to Saigon in defiance of a nationalist blockade of the city; and an ms draft report (29pp) recording his arrangements in December 1945 for the defence, again mainly by Japanese naval personnel, of military stores and other key points in the Camranh area of Cambodia against the nationalists
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-03