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Object description
Ms and ts memoirs (63 pp), written in the 1980s, covering his service in the Merchant Navy and the Royal Naval Reserve from 1924 - 1939, as a Lieutenant RNR in the aircraft carrier HMS COURAGEOUS from August 1939 until she was sunk by a U-boat in the Western Approaches on 18 September 1939 and as a Lieutenant Commander RNR in the Naval Control Service at Ramsgate (October 1939 - June 1940) for shipping examination and routine duties, including organisation of the evacuation from Dunkirk and then briefly at La Rochelle during the final phase of the campaign in France (June 1940); as Extended Defence Officer Dundee (July 1940 - April 1941); in command of the paddle steamer AA vessel HMS BOURNEMOUTH QUEEN on East coast convoy and anchorage duties (May 1941 - summer 1942); as beach master with the 1st Battalion 168th Combat Team, US Army at Algiers at the outset of the North African landings (November 1942); in command of LST 424 (January - August 1943) on her trials in the United States, with the 7th LST Flotilla in the Mediterranean landing men during the course of the invasion of Sicily until she was mined and cannibalised for spare parts; and in command of LST 366 (August 1943 - March 1944) including service ferrying vehicles, troops and supplies in the landings at Calabria and Salerno in September 1943, the opening of the port of Naples in October 1943 and the Anzio landings (January - March 1944). With the memoirs is a wordprocessed copy (2pp) of his more detailed contemporaneous account of his survival of the loss of COURAGEOUS.
Content description
Ms and ts memoirs (63 pp), written in the 1980s, covering his service in the Merchant Navy and the Royal Naval Reserve from 1924 - 1939, as a Lieutenant RNR in the aircraft carrier HMS COURAGEOUS from August 1939 until she was sunk by a U-boat in the Western Approaches on 18 September 1939 and as a Lieutenant Commander RNR in the Naval Control Service at Ramsgate (October 1939 - June 1940) for shipping examination and routine duties, including organisation of the evacuation from Dunkirk and then briefly at La Rochelle during the final phase of the campaign in France (June 1940); as Extended Defence Officer Dundee (July 1940 - April 1941); in command of the paddle steamer AA vessel HMS BOURNEMOUTH QUEEN on East coast convoy and anchorage duties (May 1941 - summer 1942); as beach master with the 1st Battalion 168th Combat Team, US Army at Algiers at the outset of the North African landings (November 1942); in command of LST 424 (January - August 1943) on her trials in the United States, with the 7th LST Flotilla in the Mediterranean landing men during the course of the invasion of Sicily until she was mined and cannibalised for spare parts; and in command of LST 366 (August 1943 - March 1944) including service ferrying vehicles, troops and supplies in the landings at Calabria and Salerno in September 1943, the opening of the port of Naples in October 1943 and the Anzio landings (January - March 1944). With the memoirs is a wordprocessed copy (2pp) of his more detailed contemporaneous account of his survival of the loss of COURAGEOUS.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1986-04