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Description: | Photocopy of an ms diary (85pp) kept by a merchant seaman in the liner ARAGON, March - November 1915, and covering her voyage to the Eastern Mediterranean as a troop transport (March - April), her conversion into an emergency hospital ship to cope with the wounded following the original landings on the Gallipoli peninsula (April) and her subsequent employment from May - November as the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Lines of Communication HQ ship in Mudros harbour. The diary includes a good description of what he saw and heard of the Cape Helles landing on 25 April and interesting references to the subsequent progress of the Gallipoli campaign, visits to the ship by Air Commodore C R Samson (26 July), General Sir Ian Hamilton (5 September) and Lord Kitchener (11 November) and of the disciplinary measures taken following the crew's refusal to work after the expiry in November of their agreement with the ARAGON's owners.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1986-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Atkinson, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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