Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald
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Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald
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Author |
Parkinson, Richard
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Notes |
My grandfather was torpoed on board a troop ship bound for Salonika and on his return to Preston that year wrote an article for the local paper before returning to duties which took him to Daar-es-Salaam.
Editor's Comment: Pte. M/284677 Richard B. Parkinson, Army Service Corps. The only troopship to have been sunk by U-Boat on the 24th June 1917 in the Mediterranean was the Cestrian, ex-Leyland Line (off Skyros) travelling from Alexandrian to Salonika, but she was sunk by UB 42, not U 153 as identified by the author. |
Item date |
11th August 1917
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Creation place |
Unknown
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Total number of pages |
3
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Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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Digital repository | |
Contributor name |
Geoffrey Phoenix
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Collection
Citation
“Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald,” by Parkinson, Richard. The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 5, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9105.
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