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Object description
Interesting ts memoir (174pp) recording his service as a surgeon with the Royal Navy, ?October 1940 - May 1945, including: the Blitz on London, September 1940; Surgeon Lieutenant, HMS PEMBROKE, Chatham, ?October 1940; active service as Medical Officer in the destroyers HMS WINDSOR and HMS HOLDERNESS, 21st Destroyer Flotilla, escorting convoys in the Channel, North Sea, and Atlantic, October 1940 - January 1941, using radar, opposing E-Boats, and being hit by mines; Deputy Medical Officer, Admiralty, London, January 1941 - January 1943; Medical Officer in the destroyer HMS MIDDLETON (Home Fleet, Scapa Flow) escorting convoys in the bleak Arctic, January - August 1943; Medical Officer to Combined Operations, Inverary, Scotland, August 1943 - April 1944, and advising Special Forces in Southern England, notably SOE, COPP, and RMBPD, April - ?September 1944; Senior Medical Officer, Admiralty, London, ?September 1944 - May 1945; and commenting on A V (later Earl) Alexander; Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham; Navy life; morale; his duties and entertainment.
Content description
Interesting ts memoir (174pp) recording his service as a surgeon with the Royal Navy, ?October 1940 - May 1945, including: the Blitz on London, September 1940; Surgeon Lieutenant, HMS PEMBROKE, Chatham, ?October 1940; active service as Medical Officer in the destroyers HMS WINDSOR and HMS HOLDERNESS, 21st Destroyer Flotilla, escorting convoys in the Channel, North Sea, and Atlantic, October 1940 - January 1941, using radar, opposing E-Boats, and being hit by mines; Deputy Medical Officer, Admiralty, London, January 1941 - January 1943; Medical Officer in the destroyer HMS MIDDLETON (Home Fleet, Scapa Flow) escorting convoys in the bleak Arctic, January - August 1943; Medical Officer to Combined Operations, Inverary, Scotland, August 1943 - April 1944, and advising Special Forces in Southern England, notably SOE, COPP, and RMBPD, April - ?September 1944; Senior Medical Officer, Admiralty, London, ?September 1944 - May 1945; and commenting on A V (later Earl) Alexander; Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham; Navy life; morale; his duties and entertainment.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1996-02-20