Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald
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Title
Article by Private Richard Parkinson in Preston Herald
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Identifier
9117.cpd
Creator
Parkinson, Richard
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Abstract
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.
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.
Date
11th August 1917
Date Created
1917-08-11
Source
Folio
Medium
Paper
Type
Publication
number of pages
3
Contributor
Richard Marshall
Geoffrey Phoenix
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford
