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Object description
Detailed ts memoir (225pp including illustrations and index), written in 1988 - 1990, describing his employment as an office junior in Slough,Berkshire from 1930, his enlistment and training as a rating in the London Division RNVR (1938 - 1939), his mobilisation and appointment as an ordinary signalman in the trawler SAON, based on Dover for local anti-submarine patrols (October - November 1939), and then in the trawler BERNARD SHAW, based on Sheerness for minesweeping duties in the Thames estuary (November 1939 - September 1940); his appointment to HMS KING ALFRED, the RNVR officers training establishment at Brighton (September - November 1940), his service as a junior RNVR officer in the infantry assault ship HMS GLENGYLE (January 1941 - January 1943) for duties in landing craft, latterly with the 51st LCA Flotilla, and including participation in the evacuations from Greece and Crete, operations against the Vichy French in Lebanon (June 1941), a convoy to Malta (January 1942), the Dieppe raid and the landings at Oran in French North Africa during Operation Torch; his command of 51st LCA Flotilla in the infantry assault ship ORONTES (March - November 1943) including service in the Sicily and Salerno landings; his command of the Flotilla, renumbered as 525th LCA Flotilla, based on HMS CRICKET in Hampshire during the preparations for D-Day (January - March 1944) and then accommodated in the landing ship infantry SS EMPIRE SPEARHEAD (April - July 1944) including the landing of 231st Infantry Brigade (50th Division) in Gold area on D-Day and ferrying duties to the Normandy beachhead; his command of 508th LCA Flotilla (`H' LCA Squadron) during the assault on Walcheren (November 1944) and other operations on the River Scheldt in the Netherlands in support of the troops ashore till VE Day and then based on HMS BRONTOSAURUS on the west coast of Scotland until his demobilisation in November 1945. The memoirs are full of useful details about service in landing craft, notably the navigational hazards of landings on hostile shores
Content description
Detailed ts memoir (225pp including illustrations and index), written in 1988 - 1990, describing his employment as an office junior in Slough,Berkshire from 1930, his enlistment and training as a rating in the London Division RNVR (1938 - 1939), his mobilisation and appointment as an ordinary signalman in the trawler SAON, based on Dover for local anti-submarine patrols (October - November 1939), and then in the trawler BERNARD SHAW, based on Sheerness for minesweeping duties in the Thames estuary (November 1939 - September 1940); his appointment to HMS KING ALFRED, the RNVR officers training establishment at Brighton (September - November 1940), his service as a junior RNVR officer in the infantry assault ship HMS GLENGYLE (January 1941 - January 1943) for duties in landing craft, latterly with the 51st LCA Flotilla, and including participation in the evacuations from Greece and Crete, operations against the Vichy French in Lebanon (June 1941), a convoy to Malta (January 1942), the Dieppe raid and the landings at Oran in French North Africa during Operation Torch; his command of 51st LCA Flotilla in the infantry assault ship ORONTES (March - November 1943) including service in the Sicily and Salerno landings; his command of the Flotilla, renumbered as 525th LCA Flotilla, based on HMS CRICKET in Hampshire during the preparations for D-Day (January - March 1944) and then accommodated in the landing ship infantry SS EMPIRE SPEARHEAD (April - July 1944) including the landing of 231st Infantry Brigade (50th Division) in Gold area on D-Day and ferrying duties to the Normandy beachhead; his command of 508th LCA Flotilla (`H' LCA Squadron) during the assault on Walcheren (November 1944) and other operations on the River Scheldt in the Netherlands in support of the troops ashore till VE Day and then based on HMS BRONTOSAURUS on the west coast of Scotland until his demobilisation in November 1945. The memoirs are full of useful details about service in landing craft, notably the navigational hazards of landings on hostile shores
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-09