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Object description
Illustrated undated wordprocessed memoir (61pp) covering his service as a Lieutenant in the cruiser HMS BIRMINGHAM on the China Station (September – December 1939), as the First Lieutenant of the newly built destroyer HMS EGLINTON which from the summer of 1940 was employed on North Sea convoy escort duty apart from supporting an aborted 'fireship' operation against Boulogne (February 1940 – spring 1942), as the First Lieutenant of the destroyer HMS ESKIMO on escort duty during Operation Pedestal, the fiercely contested passage of a supply convoy to Malta, during the passages of the Arctic convoys PQ18, which suffered heavy losses, and QP14, supporting the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942 when she rescued survivors from the troopship WINDSOR CASTLE, attacking Axis shipping in the Mediterranean during the final months of the North African campaign and then supporting the Allied invasion of Sicily until she was damaged by air attack and had to return to the United Kingdom for repair (May 1942 – autumn 1943), his brief period in command of the destroyer HMS WATCHMAN on North Atlantic convoy escort duty (autumn 1943), his command of the destroyer HMS VICEROY in the Rosyth Escort Force and her employment on North Sea convoy escort duty, including the sinking of U1274 in April 1945 and serving as the ship of the British Naval Officer in Charge in Trondheim, Norway following the end of the war in Europe (December 1943 – summer 1945), his passage to Australia on the troopship OTRANTO (September – October 1945) and service as a Lieutenant Commander in the battleship HMS KING GEORGE V while in dock in Australia and during her passage back to Home waters (October 1945 – summer 1946). The memoir also contains a copy of an article in the 1946 'Naval Review' by his father Rear Admiral Sir Errol Manners covering his very successful appointment as a Commodore of Convoys in the North Atlantic throughout the Second World War; the recollections of his younger brother, Commander E A S Manners DSC RN, of his service as a Lieutenant in the destroyer HMS BEDOUIN when she was sunk during Operation Harpoon, a supply convoy to Malta in June 1942, and he was captured by the Italians and became a prisoner of war first in Italy in PG35 (Padula) and then in Germany in Oflag VIIC (Moosburg) from 1942 – 1945; and the recollections of his sister who married a naval officer early in the war and served as a WRNS officer, mainly in Glasgow and Portsmouth, before having to relinquish her commission on account of her pregnancy.
Content description
Illustrated undated wordprocessed memoir (61pp) covering his service as a Lieutenant in the cruiser HMS BIRMINGHAM on the China Station (September – December 1939), as the First Lieutenant of the newly built destroyer HMS EGLINTON which from the summer of 1940 was employed on North Sea convoy escort duty apart from supporting an aborted 'fireship' operation against Boulogne (February 1940 – spring 1942), as the First Lieutenant of the destroyer HMS ESKIMO on escort duty during Operation Pedestal, the fiercely contested passage of a supply convoy to Malta, during the passages of the Arctic convoys PQ18, which suffered heavy losses, and QP14, supporting the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942 when she rescued survivors from the troopship WINDSOR CASTLE, attacking Axis shipping in the Mediterranean during the final months of the North African campaign and then supporting the Allied invasion of Sicily until she was damaged by air attack and had to return to the United Kingdom for repair (May 1942 – autumn 1943), his brief period in command of the destroyer HMS WATCHMAN on North Atlantic convoy escort duty (autumn 1943), his command of the destroyer HMS VICEROY in the Rosyth Escort Force and her employment on North Sea convoy escort duty, including the sinking of U1274 in April 1945 and serving as the ship of the British Naval Officer in Charge in Trondheim, Norway following the end of the war in Europe (December 1943 – summer 1945), his passage to Australia on the troopship OTRANTO (September – October 1945) and service as a Lieutenant Commander in the battleship HMS KING GEORGE V while in dock in Australia and during her passage back to Home waters (October 1945 – summer 1946). The memoir also contains a copy of an article in the 1946 'Naval Review' by his father Rear Admiral Sir Errol Manners covering his very successful appointment as a Commodore of Convoys in the North Atlantic throughout the Second World War; the recollections of his younger brother, Commander E A S Manners DSC RN, of his service as a Lieutenant in the destroyer HMS BEDOUIN when she was sunk during Operation Harpoon, a supply convoy to Malta in June 1942, and he was captured by the Italians and became a prisoner of war first in Italy in PG35 (Padula) and then in Germany in Oflag VIIC (Moosburg) from 1942 – 1945; and the recollections of his sister who married a naval officer early in the war and served as a WRNS officer, mainly in Glasgow and Portsmouth, before having to relinquish her commission on account of her pregnancy.
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