Royal Navy Certificate of Service for William Henry Amis

Item

Title

Royal Navy Certificate of Service for William Henry Amis

Identifier

9136.cpd

Creator

Subject

Amis, William Henry

Abstract

William Henry Amiss born 23.2.1894
Joined HMS Ganges as a Boy Entrant aged 11 years; and then joined the Royal Navy.

History shows that HMS Pathfinder was the first British warship to be sunk by a torpedo on September 5th 1914 (5.9.14)

William's service record shows him as being on HMS Pathfinder from 16.5.1914 to 5.9.1914

Date

December 1926 - January 1930

Date Created

1926-12-01

Temporal Coverage

1930-01-01

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Official document

number of pages

4

Contributor

Everett Sharp
Everett Sharp(Norwich and Norfolk Millennium Library Submission Day 8th April 2008)
Ronald Websdale

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford