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Originally Posted by lesrae
As some of you may remember from a Facebook post a year or so ago, a friend of mine loaned me a diary that they'd found when clearing out the house of a relative who'd passed away. It turned out to be a diary of the first 2~3 months of WWI (Aug - Oct 1914) and was kept by an officer onboard HMS E9.
Commanded by Max Horton, E9 was famous for the sinking of SMS Hela on 13th Sep 1914, the first German ship sunk by a British submarine in the war, and this event is recounted in the diary.
I've transcribed the diary and scanned in the photos that came with it and here's a link to the finished result (6Mb PDF file): https://goo.gl/pvy4ew
I hope you enjoy it and find it as interesting as I did. If you want a copy of the original diary pages (I worked from photographs as the original diary is rather frail) then contact me at les@lesrae.co.uk to get access to the files (100Mb ZIP file).
Les |
That's totally cool Les, thanks for doing this. You had me at Max Horton. I have a book that talks about some of his exploits. (Submarine Warriors, by Edwyn Gray)
McBee