Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald (3)
Page description
| Title |
Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald (3)
|
|---|---|
| Author |
Parkinson, Richard
|
| 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
|
| Creation place |
Unknown
|
| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Page number |
3
|
| Total number of pages |
3
|
| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
|
| Filename |
GWA_3039_From_the_PRESTON_HERALD.doc
|
| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
|
| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Geoffrey Phoenix
|
Collection
Citation
“Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 18, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5678.
Permitted Use
This item is available for non-commercial educational use under the terms of the Jisc Model Licence. Further details available at: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/permitteduse
Document description
| Title |
Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald
|
|---|---|
| Author |
Parkinson, Richard
|
| 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
|
| Creation place |
Unknown
|
| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Total number of pages |
3
|
| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
|
| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
|
| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Geoffrey Phoenix
|
Citation
“Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 18, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5678.
