Straits of Gibraltar
Reveille 6am. Sea moderate, ship steaming in an easterly direction now making for the Straits of Gibraltar. At noon all letters are...
read moreF W Critchley
In 1914 Frank William Critchley was 22 years old and a sergeant in the 1st/3rd Kent Battery, Royal Artillery, when they left England for India.
This portrait was taken in 1918 in Hit, Mesopotamia (now Iraq).
Cape St Vincent
Ship still steaming in a southerly direction, sea not quite so rough but she still rolls a great deal, breakfast and a stroll on deck,...
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Sunday. 6am reveille, wash and then go below to wake up the men, who sleep in hammocks, many a groan is heard when rousing the heavy...
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Steaming in South Westerly direction, sea choppy but moderated from last thing previous evening. Later on in day still steaming in a...
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