Description
Object description
Manuscript (4pp, undated) of his personal observations made during the Battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939, while serving as a Gunner in HMS EXETER, describing in some detail his experience of EXETER's engagement with the GRAF SPEE, the exchange of fire between the two ships and the damage inflicted on EXETER by several direct hits; together with a personal photograph album recording his wartime service in various RN ships during 1939 - 1945, including captioned photographs of the damage done to EXETER's superstructure during the River Plate engagement, the rest of the photographs mostly taken in HMS WARSPITE in the Mediterranean theatre of operations, including the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and the Salerno landings in September 1943, also showing damage caused to the ship by German radio-controlled bombs, with a number of photographs of Admiral Sir James Somerville and other senior officers aboard WARSPITE; with loose photographs and newspaper cuttings, also a copy of the `Falkland Islands News Weekly' of January 1940, containing several articles on the River Plate action.
Content description
Manuscript (4pp, undated) of his personal observations made during the Battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939, while serving as a Gunner in HMS EXETER, describing in some detail his experience of EXETER's engagement with the GRAF SPEE, the exchange of fire between the two ships and the damage inflicted on EXETER by several direct hits; together with a personal photograph album recording his wartime service in various RN ships during 1939 - 1945, including captioned photographs of the damage done to EXETER's superstructure during the River Plate engagement, the rest of the photographs mostly taken in HMS WARSPITE in the Mediterranean theatre of operations, including the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and the Salerno landings in September 1943, also showing damage caused to the ship by German radio-controlled bombs, with a number of photographs of Admiral Sir James Somerville and other senior officers aboard WARSPITE; with loose photographs and newspaper cuttings, also a copy of the `Falkland Islands News Weekly' of January 1940, containing several articles on the River Plate action.
History note
Cataloguer SWW