Autograph letter signed, 7-sides 4to, to "Dear Barnard" [T. H. Barnard]. Written whilst in command of H.M.S. Doris and " a patrol with ten sizable vessels under my orders" during the Gallipoli campaign.

[Mudros]: 15. IX. 15. ".............the soldiers have had and are having desperately hard times and we sailors live in luxury by comparison with our house over our backs. Our submarines have done splendidly and are the envy of the French who have had only misfortune: Boyle who got a VC was in the St. Vincent with your friend the OC or autocrat; when Boyle returned from the Marmora for the first time, the then French Rear Admiral Guipratte who everyone is fond of went on board the mother ship and embraced Boyle saying 'Oh you Beautiful Boy!'............." and much else including a transport full of Australian troops hit by a torpedo, the captain of which was "a rotten fellow.........cracking off his revolver 'To steady the boys'!....". The Aquitania as a hospital ship, a coal ballast fire and 7 of his men gassed whilst dealing with it, etc etc.