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Object description
Ts account (55pp written ca 1984) of: his service as Ordinary/Leading Seaman (Radar Operator) from May 1941 to December 1944 covering his training in HMS GANGES and service in the anti-aircraft ship HMS TYNWALD on escort duty in the North Sea and in the Mediterranean during the `Operation Torch' landings in North Africa where she was sunk (12 November 1942); in a radar station on Fair Isle in the Shetlands (ca March - September 1943); in the destroyer HMS SCOURGE (March - December 1944) on escort duty in the North Sea and with North Russian convoys, supporting operations against the TIRPITZ and on convoy and other duties in the English Channel during the Normandy Invasion;and his service as a Sub-Lieutenant/Lieutenant RNVR on the staff of the Commander in Chief East Indies in Ceylon and Hong Kong (ca May 1945 - February 1946). The account, which is informative about the contrast between life on the lower deck and as an officer, was published under the title BETWEEN DECKS (Stirlingshire: Newless Press, 1996).
Content description
Ts account (55pp written ca 1984) of: his service as Ordinary/Leading Seaman (Radar Operator) from May 1941 to December 1944 covering his training in HMS GANGES and service in the anti-aircraft ship HMS TYNWALD on escort duty in the North Sea and in the Mediterranean during the `Operation Torch' landings in North Africa where she was sunk (12 November 1942); in a radar station on Fair Isle in the Shetlands (ca March - September 1943); in the destroyer HMS SCOURGE (March - December 1944) on escort duty in the North Sea and with North Russian convoys, supporting operations against the TIRPITZ and on convoy and other duties in the English Channel during the Normandy Invasion;and his service as a Sub-Lieutenant/Lieutenant RNVR on the staff of the Commander in Chief East Indies in Ceylon and Hong Kong (ca May 1945 - February 1946). The account, which is informative about the contrast between life on the lower deck and as an officer, was published under the title BETWEEN DECKS (Stirlingshire: Newless Press, 1996).
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1985-01