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Bound printed memoir (82pp), written ca 1990, describing his early life and employment, mainly in Colwyn Bay, North Wales (1921 - 1939), his employment as a clerk with the Ministry of Food in the town (1940 - 1941), his training as an ordinary telegraphist at the shore establishment HMS ROYAL ARTHUR in Skegness (November 1941 - May 1942), his appointment to the newly built HMS MMS 172 for magnetic minesweeping duties, first based on Swansea for operations in the Bristol Channel (July 1942 - September 1943), then on Maddalena for operations off Corsica and Sardinia (October 1943 - March 1944) and subsequently on ports on the west coast of Italy from Naples up to Genoa (April 1944 - July 1945), his return to the United Kingdom and demobilisation (July 1945 - January 1946) and his post war career in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (1946 - 1981). The wartime chapters also describe his romance and marriage to a Colwyn Bay girl, living conditions in a small warship, social activities during his runs ashore and his impressions of Italy and the Italians in wartime. His memoir has since been published under the title MMS 172: A TELEGRAPHIST'S EXPERIENCE OF WARTIME MINESWEEPING (Aylesbury: Kimble Press, 1997).
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Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1994-02
