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Object description
Bound and extensively illustrated wordprocessed memoirs (133pp), largely written in the 1990s, covering his childhood and early education, his training as a cadet at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth (1926 - 1929), his service as a midshipman in HMS SHROPSHIRE (1st Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet) and in the destroyer HMS BOUDICEA (1929 - 1932), his Sub Lieutenant's courses (1932 - 1933), his service as a Sub Lieutenant in the Home Fleet battleship HMS BARHAM (1933 - 1935), as a Lieutenant in HMS QUEEEN ELIZABETH, the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet (1935 - 1937), as a Divisional Officer in HMS ST VINCENT, the boys' training establishment at Gosport (1937 - 1939), as the 1st Lieutenant of the minesweeper HMS ALBURY including service in the evacuation from Dunkirk (September 1939 - June 1940), as the 1st Lieutenant of HMS MYTILUS, a tanker selected for the projected fireship attack on the German invasion ports in France and Belgium (mid - late 1940), as 1st Lieutenant of HMS BEDOUIN (6th Destroyer Flotilla) including service in the raid on the Lofoten Islands in February 1941 and escorting the first Arctic convoy (November 1940 - April 1942), as the Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMS WINCHESTER on North Sea convoy escort duty (1942 - 1943), of HMS SWIFT in the 23rd Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet on Arctic convoy escort duty, operations against the TIRPITZ in Norwegian waters and supporting the Normandy landings until she was mined and sunk off the Normandy beachhead (October 1943 - June 1944) and of HMS ORWELL (17th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet) which was principally employed on Arctic convoy escort duty and operations in Norwegian waters (July 1944 - July 1945), as a House Officer in the Royal Naval College Dartmouth at its wartime location in Chester (1945 - 1946), as the Home Fleet Recreation Officer in the battleships HMS KING GEORGE V and HMS DUKE OF YORK (1946 - 1947), as Head of the Naval Mission to Burma (1947 - 1949), as executive officer of the training cruiser HMS DEVONSHIRE (1949 - 1951), as Commander of the Royal Naval College Greenwich (1951 - 1953), as a Captain on the Joint Services Staff College course (1953 - 1954), as Director of PT and Sports, Royal Navy (1954 - 1956), as Commanding Officer of the fleet escort HMS DIANA, one of the warships used to ascertain the effects of radioactive fallout on operational naval vessels during the British atomic bomb tests near Monte Bello Island off Western Australia and then deployed with TF 324 during the Suez crisis when she was involved in the sinking of the Egyptian frigate DOMIAT (1956 - 1957), as the British Naval Attache in South America, based on Chile (1958 - 1960) and in command of HMS GANGES, the boys' training establishment at Shotley (1960 - 1962).
Content description
Bound and extensively illustrated wordprocessed memoirs (133pp), largely written in the 1990s, covering his childhood and early education, his training as a cadet at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth (1926 - 1929), his service as a midshipman in HMS SHROPSHIRE (1st Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet) and in the destroyer HMS BOUDICEA (1929 - 1932), his Sub Lieutenant's courses (1932 - 1933), his service as a Sub Lieutenant in the Home Fleet battleship HMS BARHAM (1933 - 1935), as a Lieutenant in HMS QUEEEN ELIZABETH, the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet (1935 - 1937), as a Divisional Officer in HMS ST VINCENT, the boys' training establishment at Gosport (1937 - 1939), as the 1st Lieutenant of the minesweeper HMS ALBURY including service in the evacuation from Dunkirk (September 1939 - June 1940), as the 1st Lieutenant of HMS MYTILUS, a tanker selected for the projected fireship attack on the German invasion ports in France and Belgium (mid - late 1940), as 1st Lieutenant of HMS BEDOUIN (6th Destroyer Flotilla) including service in the raid on the Lofoten Islands in February 1941 and escorting the first Arctic convoy (November 1940 - April 1942), as the Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMS WINCHESTER on North Sea convoy escort duty (1942 - 1943), of HMS SWIFT in the 23rd Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet on Arctic convoy escort duty, operations against the TIRPITZ in Norwegian waters and supporting the Normandy landings until she was mined and sunk off the Normandy beachhead (October 1943 - June 1944) and of HMS ORWELL (17th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet) which was principally employed on Arctic convoy escort duty and operations in Norwegian waters (July 1944 - July 1945), as a House Officer in the Royal Naval College Dartmouth at its wartime location in Chester (1945 - 1946), as the Home Fleet Recreation Officer in the battleships HMS KING GEORGE V and HMS DUKE OF YORK (1946 - 1947), as Head of the Naval Mission to Burma (1947 - 1949), as executive officer of the training cruiser HMS DEVONSHIRE (1949 - 1951), as Commander of the Royal Naval College Greenwich (1951 - 1953), as a Captain on the Joint Services Staff College course (1953 - 1954), as Director of PT and Sports, Royal Navy (1954 - 1956), as Commanding Officer of the fleet escort HMS DIANA, one of the warships used to ascertain the effects of radioactive fallout on operational naval vessels during the British atomic bomb tests near Monte Bello Island off Western Australia and then deployed with TF 324 during the Suez crisis when she was involved in the sinking of the Egyptian frigate DOMIAT (1956 - 1957), as the British Naval Attache in South America, based on Chile (1958 - 1960) and in command of HMS GANGES, the boys' training establishment at Shotley (1960 - 1962).
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2003-07