From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log

This story has been assembled from a record written by Wolston B. C. W. Forester during a short span of sick leave in December 1915. From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log by Wolston B. C. W. Forester was edited by his mother, Elspeth Lascelles Forester. It was initially planned only for personal reading for the close ones, but all those who read it urged her to put it into print.

The foreword by his mother states, «these pages make no claim to literary merit seems almost superfluous, since they are simply a boy's story of ten months of the Great War as he saw it. In deference to the said tradition the names of officers and ships concerned have been suppressed—those of the midshipmen mentioned are all fictitious.»

Table of content:

Dartmouth College

Manœuvres

The Beginning of the «Real Thing»

We Join our Ship

Alarums and Excursions

We Leave Home Waters

From Egypt to Mombasa

The Bombardment of Dar-es-Salaam

Ordered to the Dardanelles

In Action

The Sinking of the Ship

Home