An exercise book with the back cover missing and many pages loose. The book contains 194 photographs in corner slots or glued in and 6 loose photographs.

This album contains photographs relating to Sub-Lieutenant Connolly’s career in the Aegean, 1916-1917. Ships include HM ML224 (1915), ex Greek Royal Yacht Avlis , HMS Lowestoft (1913), HM M22 (1915), HMS Europa (1897), HMS Whitby Abbey (1908) and HMS St Clair (1904). The Avlis was used by Compton Mackenzie, working for military intelligence in the Aegean, as his flagship. There are also photographs of naval officers and of Connolly himself as well as Greeks, Turks and Italians. There are many topographical views of Aegean sea ports.

Cecil Vincent Connolly was promoted temporary Sub-Lieutenant RNVR, 25th May 1916 and temporary Lieutenant, 25th May 1917. He was demobbed 15th July 1920 and returned to New Zealand. The Caird Library holds Lt Connolly’s diary kept while serving in the stone frigate HMS Egmont at Malta ( the base for the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean) from November 1916 until September 1917 and account of his service 1917 -1920 (JOD/183) in which he says he was involved running spies into Turkey. In 1919 he served in the naval brigade under Admiral Troubridge on the Danube.

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