Description
Object description
Seven ms letters to his wife from a 62 year old retired Admiral who had voluntarily accepted the rank of Commander RNR on the outbreak of war and covering his command in September - October 1914 of the armed yacht EVENING STAR which was attached to the Humber Auxiliary Patrol for anti-submarine patrol duties in the North Sea; together with an ms letter (2pp) to his brother, an MP, in April 1916 when he was serving, in the rank of Commodore RNR, as the Captain in Charge of Auxiliary Patrol Area XVII based on Larne in Ulster, in which he refers to the "futilely childish rebellion" in Dublin, the rebels' use of wireless and the precautions that he had taken against the possibility of trouble at Larne; also one ms letter (4pp) from his wife, dated April 1915, describing her nursing duties at the Hospital Anglais in Nevers, France and commenting on the appalling wounds and courageous spirit of the French soldiers there.
Content description
Seven ms letters to his wife from a 62 year old retired Admiral who had voluntarily accepted the rank of Commander RNR on the outbreak of war and covering his command in September - October 1914 of the armed yacht EVENING STAR which was attached to the Humber Auxiliary Patrol for anti-submarine patrol duties in the North Sea; together with an ms letter (2pp) to his brother, an MP, in April 1916 when he was serving, in the rank of Commodore RNR, as the Captain in Charge of Auxiliary Patrol Area XVII based on Larne in Ulster, in which he refers to the "futilely childish rebellion" in Dublin, the rebels' use of wireless and the precautions that he had taken against the possibility of trouble at Larne; also one ms letter (4pp) from his wife, dated April 1915, describing her nursing duties at the Hospital Anglais in Nevers, France and commenting on the appalling wounds and courageous spirit of the French soldiers there.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1998-08-25