{"id":16,"date":"2017-10-04T06:11:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T05:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepseascouts\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2017-11-17T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:10:20","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the 1st HMS Kelantan Deep-Sea Rover Scout Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father, Allan Johnson Clarke, served on HMS Kelantan from 6 April 1942 until 23 September 1946. In 1945, while stationed in Hong Kong, he led the ship&#8217;s Deep Sea Rover Scout Troop. The text here is the diary he kept of this time.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deepsea_cover_full-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the diary\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deepsea_cover_full-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deepsea_cover_full-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deepsea_cover_full-672x1024.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The diary consists of 64 pages of typed foolscap. I&#8217;m working through them.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a little work started already on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea_archive\/\">some older pages<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll be redirecting those links here when I get more of the diary digitised.<\/p>\n<p>2017-10-01: After a gap of several years, I&#8217;ve restarted work on the diary. I&#8217;m indebted to Dominic Lo for rekindling my activity. I&#8217;ve started making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/2017\/10\/28\/list-of-diary-entries\/\">a list of the pages<\/a> I have. I&#8217;m getting through the scanning, starting to put the information online.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the links on this page to browse the diary entries and publications, or click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/category\/diary\/?order=asc\">The Diary<\/a> to read the story in the order it happened in 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father, Allan Johnson Clarke, served on HMS Kelantan from 6 April 1942 until 23 September 1946. In 1945, while stationed in Hong Kong, he led the ship&#8217;s Deep Sea Rover Scout Troop. The text here is the diary he kept of this time. The diary consists of 64 pages of typed foolscap. I&#8217;m working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrich.co.uk\/deepsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}