Folios 111-114: Enclosure Number 4. Report of proceedings of the Fourth Detached...

Folios 111-114: Enclosure Number 4. Report of proceedings of the Fourth Detached Squadron for 20 to 26 August 1916 by Captain and Senior Naval Officer Frank Larken, HMS Doris at Port Iero, 4th Detached Squadron.

Folios 115-118: Enclosure Number 5. Report of proceedings of the Fifth Detached Squadron for 20 to 26 August 1916 by Archibald Cochrane, HMS Skirmisher, Senior Officer 5th Detached Squadron. Includes report of the boarding of Brig. “Prophète Helier” with crew of monks from Sete Russe St Helier Russian Monastery on Mt Athos, master named Diogene (folio 118).

Folios 118A-122: Enclosure Number 6. Report of proceedings of the Sixth Detached Squadron for 20 to 26 August 1916 by Captain Edgar Grace, HMS Grafton, Senior Officer 6th Detached Squadron, with blockade orders (folio 123) and return of gunnery drills carried out on 26 August 1916 (folio 124).

Folios 125-127: Enclosure Number 7. Covering letter dated 26 August 1916 and the report of proceedings of HMS Sir Thomas Picton for 23 -26 August 1916 by Captain Hugh Justin Tweedie (folios 126-127).

Folios 128-129: Enclosure Number 8. Weekly summary of operations of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla for 20 to 26 August 1916 by Charles Penrose Rushton Coode, HMS Blenheim. Captain (D) Fifth Destroyer Flotilla.

Folios 130-141: Enclosure Number 8. Naval Air Service including weekly operations report and intelligence summaries number 23 for Dardanelles, Turkey, Bulgaria and Smyrna areas. Mention of an attack on a pontoon bridge across the Nestos river by Flight Lieutenant R.Y. Bush, Flight Sub-Lieutenant F.E.P. Barrington, Sub Lieutenant W.C. Jameson and CPO Marchant, Flight Sub-Lieutenants S.M. Kinkead and G.K. Blandy; Also mention of an attack by Flight Commander T.A. Rainey, Flight Lieutenant R.Y. Bush, Flight Sub-Lieutenant F.E.P. Barrington, Lieutenant W. Park DSC, Sub-Lieutenant W.C. Jameson, CPO Marchant, Flight Lieutenants S.M. Kinkead and Blandy; Flight Sub-Lieutenant Williams and Sub-Lieutenant Morley; Flight Sub-Lieutenant H.V. Reid and Lieutenant E. Sassoon 5th Dragoon Guards (folios 131 and 132); Flight Lieutenant C.E. Brislery (folio 133). Admiralty notes on foregoing report and enclosures (folios 142-143).

Folios 145-266: 27 August to 2 September 1916 (papers M 08719/16. and N 1806/16).

Folios 145-152: Covering letter and report of operations 27 August to 2 September 1916 (paper No 1616/120.E) by Vice Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby on HMS Triad with reports of Detached Squadrons as follows: First Detached Squadron (Crete and the Anatolian Coast between Samos and Rhodes), Second Detached Squadron (Dardanelles area), Third Detached Squadron (Salonika area), Fourth Detached Squadron (Smyrna, Khios and Samos area), Fifth Detached Squadron (Doro-Salonika transport route), Sixth Detached Squadron (Bulgarian coast).

Folio 153: Enclosure Number 1. Report of proceedings of First Detached Squadron dated 5 September 1916 by Francis Clifton Brown, HMS Edgar, Captain and Senior Officer, First Detached Squadron. Folio 154: Enclosure No 2. Report of proceedings of the Second Detached Squadron for 29 August to 3 September 1916 by Captain Arthur Kenneth Macrorie HMS Theseus, Senior Officer, Second Detached Squadron. Also includes RNAS reconnaissance reports for 27 August to 2 September 1916 (folios 155-161). Folios 162-164: Enclosure No 3. Report of proceedings of the Third Detached Squadron for 27 August to 2 September 1916 by Captain Cecil Minet Staveley, HMS Endymion, Senior Naval Officer 3rd Detached Squadron and Salonika. Folios 165-171: Enclosure No 4. Report of proceedings of the Fourth Detached Squadron for 27 August to 3 September 1916 by Captain and Senior Naval Officer Frank Larken, HMS Doris at Port Iero, 4th Detached Squadron. Including report of attack on Turks in neighbourhood of Straits of Samos on 2 September 1916 with attention drawn to Sub-Lieutenant John A Lorimer in all raids, (folios 170-171).

Folios 172-174: Enclosure Number 5. Report of proceedings of the Fifth Detached Squadron for 27 August to 2 September 1916 by Archibald Cochrane, HMS Skirmisher, Senior Officer 5th Detached Squadron.

Folios 175-178: Enclosure Number 6. Report of proceedings of the Sixth Detached Squadron for 27 August to 2 September 1916 by Captain Edgar Grace, HMS Grafton, Senior Officer 6th Detached Squadron.

Folios 179-180: Enclosure Number 7. Weekly summary of operations of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla for 27 August to 2 September 1916 by Charles Penrose Rushton Coode, HMS Blenheim. Captain (D) Fifth Destroyer Flotilla.

Folios 181-210: Enclosure Number 8. Naval Air Service including weekly operations report number 24 dated 1 September 1916 and intelligence summaries for Bulgaria, Smyrna and Scala Nuava areas. Mention of Flight Sub-Lieutenant Williams, Sub-Lieutenant Jameson, Flight Lieutenant Bush CPO Marchant, Flight Sub-Lieutenant Barrington and Lieutenant W.Park in attack on the railway station and bridge at Buk. Also Flight Sub-Lieutenants G.K. Blandy and S.M. Kinkead. Flight Lieutenant Bush, CPO Marchant, Flight Sub-lieutenant Williams, A.M. Howes, Flight Sub-Lieutenant Barrington, Sub-Lieutenant B.C. Morley and Flight Sub-Lieutenant Mills in a raid at Porna (folios 182 and 183).