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Folio 1: Blank. Folio 2: Title Page. Folio 3: Historical Section explanatory note...

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/224/1

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This record is about the Folio 1: Blank. Folio 2: Title Page. Folio 3: Historical Section explanatory note... dating from 1915 Jan-1915 June in the series Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ADM 137/224/1
Date
1915 Jan-1915 June
Description

Folio 1: Blank.

Folio 2: Title Page.

Folio 3: Historical Section explanatory note regarding contents of volume.

Folio 4: Historical Section list of docketed papers.

Folio 5: Historical Section reference note regarding proceedings of Laurentic, December 1914 – January 1915.

Folios 6-8: Blank.

Folio 9: Schedule of letters of proceedings of the Senior Naval Officer.

Folio 10: Historical Section note.

Folio 11: Summary of reports and despatches forwarded by the Senior Naval Officer, Duala, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 1915.

Folios 12-26: (Paper number M 02005/15) Despatch from Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, Senior Naval Officer, Duala, HMS Challenger, to the Admiralty, dated 6 February 1915, regarding operations in the Cameroon. Includes report on the Gunnery Department, HMS Cumberland.

Folios 27-28: Translation of a German letter dated 30 December 1914 from H E Schmidt to Herr Lehning captured at Dehane, 25 December 1915.

Folios 29-30: Extract from the report dated 19 January 1915 by Lieutenant Henry Thurston Wake Pawsey, Royal Navy, SS Lala.

Folios 31-33: Report dated 18 January 1915 by Lieutenant-Commander William H. Davis, RNR, HMS Challenger, at Duala, regarding operations of the Field Gun Crew.

Folios 34-35: Sketches which refer to the above report, (folios 31-33) showing bridge built by Pioneers sent by Lieutenant-Commander Davis, RNR.

Folios 36-38: Seven photographs of the Nlohe Bridge, Cameroon Northern Railway showing its destruction by the enemy and subsequent repairs by the British Railway Section, Cameroon Expeditionary Force, 1915.

Folio 39: Report regarding the German steamer Herzogin Elisabeth sunk in Duala Harbour and raised and then renamed Margaret Elisabeth, 30 October 1914.

Folios 43-47: (paper number M 02136/15) Despatch dated 21 February 1915 by Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, Senior Naval Officer, Duala, HMS Challenger, regarding operations in the Cameroons.

Folio 48: Admiralty minute dated 18 March 1915. Comments by Admiral Henry Bradwardine Jackson and Rear Admiral Henry Francis Oliver on above despatch (folios 43-47) from Captain Fuller.

Folios 50-65: (paper numbers M 03913/15 and M 04202/15) Despatch dated 14 April 1915 by Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, Senior Naval Officer, Duala, HMS Challenger, regarding operations in the Cameroons.

Folio 66: Survey plan of Dipikar redoubt drawn by Midshipman Ronald Bayne dated 19 March 1915. Folio 67: Admiralty minute dated 23 March 1915. Comments on the blockade of the Cameroons from Admiral Henry Bradwardine Jackson.

Folios 71-72: (paper number M 04202/15) Extract from a report dated 14 April 1915 by Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, Senior Naval Officer, Duala, regarding the status of a Mr Olshausen.

Folios 75-89: (paper number M 05087/15) Despatch dated 29 May 1915 by Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, Senior Naval Officer, Duala, HMS Astraea, regarding operations in the Cameroons.

Folio 90: Letter dated 20 April 1915 from Angel Barrera, Governor General, Santa Isabel to General Charles Macpherson Dobell, regarding food entering the Cameroons by way of Spanish territory.

Folio 91: Extracts from the diary of one Franz, a planter, found at Eseka railway station, 1915.

Folios 96-109: (paper number M 06012/15) Despatch dated 7 July 1915 by Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, Senior Naval Officer, Duala, HMS Astraea, regarding operations in the Cameroons.

Folio 110: Extract from a letter from Ober-Lieutenant Herbst, Adjutant and Staff Officer to Major Ramnstedt, to Lieutenant Distler, Dschang, dated 14 April 1915.

Folios 114-150: (paper number M 07595/15) Report on the Naval and combined Naval and Military operations in the Cameroons from their inception until 30 June 1915 by Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, Senior Naval Officer, Duala, HMS Astraea. Includes the proceedings of HMS Cumberland from receipt of orders to arrival at Fernando Po, (folios 116-117); preliminary operations, (folios 117-118); operations in the Cameroon River, (folios 118-121); prize vessels, (folios 122-123); operations near Dualua subsequent to its surrender, (folios 123-124); coast work, (folios 124-125); operations against Jabassi, (folios 125-127); Edea expedition, (folios 127-128); Kwa-Kwa flotilla, (folio 128); Samaga River Flotilla, (folios 128-129); Njong River contingent, (folios 129-131); drowning of Lieutenant Herbert Alexander Child (Royal Navy), Commander George Smith Booth Gray (Royal Naval Reserve), Captain A A Franqueville (staff officer to the officer commanding the French troops and two native crew, (folios 130); operations of naval 12 pounder guns with French column during 15 October – 1 November 1914, (folio 132); further expedition against Jabassi district, (folios 132-133); capture and oocupation of Buea, (folio 133); Bibundi operations, (folios 133-134); Victoria operations, (folio 134); Tiko – Main line of advance on Buea, (folios 134-134); Mungo River column, (folios 135-136); Njong, Lokundji and Kribi, (folios 136-137); operations along Northern Railway and capture of Dschang, (folios 137-139); departure of HMS Cumberland, (folio 139); Kribi, (folios 139-140); naval 12 pounder guns at Garua and with Jaunde column, (folios 140-141); operations towards Jaunde, (folios 141-142); river work including the Njong, Sanaga,Lokundje, Campo, Wuri, Dibamba, Ndonga rivers and also Kwa-Kwa creek (folios 142-146); patrol and blockade, (folio 146); prize vessels, (folio 147); departure of HMS Challenger, (folio 147); helath of personnel, (folio 147); salvage operations and dockyard work, (folios 147-148); French men of war, (folio 149); general, (folios 149-150).

Listing continued in ADM 137/224/2.

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Cameroons docketed papers, January-June 1915. (Described at item level)

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