http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=HMS_GloucesterHMS Gloucester - Revision history2026-11-12T22:01:29ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.27.0http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/index.php?title=HMS_Gloucester&diff=53100&oldid=prevGavinRobinson: Created page with "<!-- See http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/Template:Infobox_military_unit for information on what these fields mean --> {{Infobox military unit | country = Unit..."2017-11-28T19:37:56Z<p>Created page with "<!-- See http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/Template:Infobox_military_unit for information on what these fields mean --> {{Infobox military unit | country = Unit..."</p>
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| country = United Kingdom<br />
| service = Royal Navy<br />
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| type = Ship<br />
| specific_type = Light cruiser<br />
| size_at_full_strength = <br />
| unit_info_ref = [[Wikipedia:HMS Gloucester (1909)]]<br />
| start_date = 1909<br />
| created = Built by William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir<br />
| start_ref = [[Wikipedia:HMS Gloucester (1909)]]<br />
| unit_name1 = HMS Gloucester<br />
| unit_name1_start_date = 1909<br />
| unit_name1_end_date = 1920<br />
| unit_name1_reason_for_change = decommissioned<br />
| unit_name1_ref = [[Wikipedia:HMS Gloucester (1909)]]<br />
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| end_date = 1920<br />
| disbanded = Decommissioned 1920. Scrapped 1921.<br />
| end_ref = [[Wikipedia:HMS Gloucester (1909)]]<br />
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=== Paul Berryman ===<br />
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Paul Berryman was a Royal Navy officer. He wrote many letters while serving on:<br />
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* [[HMS Gloucester]]<br />
* [[HMS Malaya]]<br />
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A collection of 166 family letters is held by the Imperial War Museum and has been published:<br />
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* original letters: [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030020614 Imperial War Museum Documents.18246]<br />
* the letters are being blogged on their 100th anniversary at the [http://www.familyletters.co.uk/author/paul/ Family Letters blog].<br />
* The Berryman family's letters have previously been printed as: {{Cite book| publisher = Sutton| isbn = 978-0-86299-227-9| editor-last = Nesham| editor-first = Félicité| title = Socks, cigarettes and shipwrecks: a family's war letters 1914-1918| location = Gloucester| date = 1987}}<br />
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