Lieutenant I M Anderson RN

Microfilm copy of an ms diary covering his service as a junior officer in HMS OLYMPUS (4th Submarine Flotilla, China Station) from July 1937 - August 1939, with interesting entries about the Japanese presence at Wei-Hai-Wei, the opening of the Singapore dockyard, social life ashore at Hong Kong and elsewhere and OLYMPUS's deployment at the time of the Munich crisis, and then in the submarine HMS ODIN which was initially based, following the outbreak of war on Penang and then on Ceylon, carrying out a series of unsuccessful patrols in the Indian Ocean (September 1939 - March 1940) before being ordered to Malta where she was lost with all hands on her first patrol in the Mediterranean just after Italy's entry into the war (June 1940). A large number of photographs, presscuttings and other items, including a letter from his father about the Munich settlement and a typed copy of his own last letter home, have been inserted in the diary, which reflects some of Anderson's frustrations during his nine months service in ODIN.

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