Description
Object description
Ms diary (60pp) covering his service as a watch-keeping Lieutenant in HMS ANTRIM, the flagship of Rear Admiral W C Pakenham, Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron, July 1914 - February 1915, detailing his journey to Scapa Flow and duties involving mine and anti-submarine patrols, criticising Admiral Pakenham's reluctance to board ships and Captain Molteno as being ill-tempered, making several references to the threat posed by U-boats before his move to Rosyth where he describes the aftermath of the Battle of the Dogger Bank; together with a ts diary covering his service in command of the submarine G8 attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla based on Scapa Flow, March 1917 - July 1917, covering patrols between Scapa and Norway and also giving his impressions of HMS KING GEORGE V (2nd Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet); plus miscellaneous documents consisting of reports, sailing orders, letters and memoranda relating to his service in submarines, 1915 - 1918; together with 10 ms letters to his wife (with 30pp ts transcription) covering the departure of the expeditionary force to Norway in April 1940 and his experiences in Normandy in the weeks following the D-Day landings.
Content description
Ms diary (60pp) covering his service as a watch-keeping Lieutenant in HMS ANTRIM, the flagship of Rear Admiral W C Pakenham, Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron, July 1914 - February 1915, detailing his journey to Scapa Flow and duties involving mine and anti-submarine patrols, criticising Admiral Pakenham's reluctance to board ships and Captain Molteno as being ill-tempered, making several references to the threat posed by U-boats before his move to Rosyth where he describes the aftermath of the Battle of the Dogger Bank; together with a ts diary covering his service in command of the submarine G8 attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla based on Scapa Flow, March 1917 - July 1917, covering patrols between Scapa and Norway and also giving his impressions of HMS KING GEORGE V (2nd Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet); plus miscellaneous documents consisting of reports, sailing orders, letters and memoranda relating to his service in submarines, 1915 - 1918; together with 10 ms letters to his wife (with 30pp ts transcription) covering the departure of the expeditionary force to Norway in April 1940 and his experiences in Normandy in the weeks following the D-Day landings.
History note
Cataloguer JSK
History note
Catalogue date 2002-05-23