Description
Object description
Illustrated wordprocessed record (34pp) of his service in the Merchant Navy from 1941 to 1945, including an edited transcript (14pp) of the diary that he kept during his second voyage, when he appears to have been employed mainly on galley duties, on the troopship MV DOMINION MONARCH from September 1941 – February 1942 during which the ship made a 'long, tedious trip' from the United Kingdom via Sierra Leone, South Africa and Ceylon to Singapore, where she was moored at the time of the outbreak of war in the Far East, and then proceeded to New Zealand before crossing the Pacific, going through the Panama Canal and returning to the United Kingdom via Halifax, Nova Scotia; and also giving very brief details of his other wartime voyages, photocopies of his Board of Trade pay slips for each voyage and histories of the DOMINION MONARCH and the two other ships on which he sailed during the war. The most interesting diary entries relate to air attacks on the convoy in which DOMINION MONARCH sailed in September 1941, the references to HMS REPULSE, his presence in Singapore when the war against Japan began and his anxiety about his prolonged separation from his wife and children.
Content description
Illustrated wordprocessed record (34pp) of his service in the Merchant Navy from 1941 to 1945, including an edited transcript (14pp) of the diary that he kept during his second voyage, when he appears to have been employed mainly on galley duties, on the troopship MV DOMINION MONARCH from September 1941 – February 1942 during which the ship made a 'long, tedious trip' from the United Kingdom via Sierra Leone, South Africa and Ceylon to Singapore, where she was moored at the time of the outbreak of war in the Far East, and then proceeded to New Zealand before crossing the Pacific, going through the Panama Canal and returning to the United Kingdom via Halifax, Nova Scotia; and also giving very brief details of his other wartime voyages, photocopies of his Board of Trade pay slips for each voyage and histories of the DOMINION MONARCH and the two other ships on which he sailed during the war. The most interesting diary entries relate to air attacks on the convoy in which DOMINION MONARCH sailed in September 1941, the references to HMS REPULSE, his presence in Singapore when the war against Japan began and his anxiety about his prolonged separation from his wife and children.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS