Description
Object description
Photocopied ts account (72pp) of his service as a Midshipman in the troopship REINA DEL PACIFICO (January - February 1945), the cruisers HMS NEWCASTLE (February - May 1945) and HMS NORFOLK (May 1945 - February 1946) and the destroyer HMS CAVALIER (February - July 1946), providing little detail of the voyages of the first three of these ships to Australia, the Far East and the Middle East, but describing the NORFOLK's involvement in quelling Indonesian freedom fighters in Semarang, Java in December 1945, together with descriptions of the CAVALIER's activities, including her presence at Bombay during the later stages of the Indian naval mutiny (February 1946), a secret mission to deport Communists from Singapore to China, via Hong Kong (March 1946), and ferrying British military personnel to and from formerly Japanese occupied islands in and around the Philippines and the Celebes, and his witnessing the deliberate destruction of Lend-Lease equipment by the Americans in 1946.
Content description
Photocopied ts account (72pp) of his service as a Midshipman in the troopship REINA DEL PACIFICO (January - February 1945), the cruisers HMS NEWCASTLE (February - May 1945) and HMS NORFOLK (May 1945 - February 1946) and the destroyer HMS CAVALIER (February - July 1946), providing little detail of the voyages of the first three of these ships to Australia, the Far East and the Middle East, but describing the NORFOLK's involvement in quelling Indonesian freedom fighters in Semarang, Java in December 1945, together with descriptions of the CAVALIER's activities, including her presence at Bombay during the later stages of the Indian naval mutiny (February 1946), a secret mission to deport Communists from Singapore to China, via Hong Kong (March 1946), and ferrying British military personnel to and from formerly Japanese occupied islands in and around the Philippines and the Celebes, and his witnessing the deliberate destruction of Lend-Lease equipment by the Americans in 1946.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1979-04