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Description: | Ms diary, in two volumes (125pp and 14pp, plus 3 loose sketches), kept by an engine room artificer during his passage in the armed boarding steamer HMS PERTH from the United Kingdom through the Mediterranean to Port Said and then in the transport LAKE MANITOBA through the Suez Canal to Abadan (November - December 1915), his service in the depot ship HMS ALERT at Abadan working on the engines of the river gunboats under construction there (January - February 1916), his service in the river gunboat HMS WATERFLY during her deployment on the River Tigris in support of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (March 1916 - May 1917) and his passage in the SS ELEPHANTA from Mesopotamia to India (May 1917). The well written diary entries make regular reference to the movements of the gunboats on the Tigris, conditions for their ship's companies in Mesopotamia, enemy air activity and his social activities when off-duty and they also include interesting comments on the conduct of WATERFLY's officers and ratings when some nurses were on board (22 November 1916), his frustration with service in Mesopotamia (25 December 1916) and on Baghdad after its capture (31 March, 29 - 30 April 1916).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2001-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Seville, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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