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Interesting ts memoir (55pp), written in 1944, describing his childhood and education in Jersey (1922 - 1940), his appointment as a Special Entry midshipman RIN and service in the battleship HMS KING GEORGE V, including Lord Halifax's passage to the United States (January - February 1941) and then in the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES from February 1941, including the action in the North Atlantic with the BISMARCK in which HMS HOOD was sunk (May), Churchill's voyage across the Atlantic for the Placentia Bay meeting with President Roosevelt (August), escorting a convoy bound for Malta (September), her passage out to the Far East as Admiral Sir Tom Phillips' flagship (November - December), the sinking of the ship and HMS REPULSE by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaya and his rescue by the destroyer HMS EXPRESS; his appointment to the gunroom of the cruiser HMS EXETER in December 1941 and service in her in the waters off the Netherlands East Indies until she was sunk by a Japanese naval force in the Java Sea on 1 March 1942; his rescue by a Japanese destroyer and imprisonment in camps at Macassar and Pomalla in the Celebes (March 1942 - autumn 1943) and then in camps at Batavia (Cycle Camp), Makasura, Boei Glodok, Bandoeng and a reformatory in Java until his liberation in August - September 1945. The memoir includes some revealing comments about the conduct of fellow officers at sea and in captivity and his gradual disenchantment with life in the Royal Navy, while it identifies the shortage of food and the unpredictability and frequent brutality of the Japanese as the worst features of prisoner of war life.
Content description
Interesting ts memoir (55pp), written in 1944, describing his childhood and education in Jersey (1922 - 1940), his appointment as a Special Entry midshipman RIN and service in the battleship HMS KING GEORGE V, including Lord Halifax's passage to the United States (January - February 1941) and then in the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES from February 1941, including the action in the North Atlantic with the BISMARCK in which HMS HOOD was sunk (May), Churchill's voyage across the Atlantic for the Placentia Bay meeting with President Roosevelt (August), escorting a convoy bound for Malta (September), her passage out to the Far East as Admiral Sir Tom Phillips' flagship (November - December), the sinking of the ship and HMS REPULSE by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaya and his rescue by the destroyer HMS EXPRESS; his appointment to the gunroom of the cruiser HMS EXETER in December 1941 and service in her in the waters off the Netherlands East Indies until she was sunk by a Japanese naval force in the Java Sea on 1 March 1942; his rescue by a Japanese destroyer and imprisonment in camps at Macassar and Pomalla in the Celebes (March 1942 - autumn 1943) and then in camps at Batavia (Cycle Camp), Makasura, Boei Glodok, Bandoeng and a reformatory in Java until his liberation in August - September 1945. The memoir includes some revealing comments about the conduct of fellow officers at sea and in captivity and his gradual disenchantment with life in the Royal Navy, while it identifies the shortage of food and the unpredictability and frequent brutality of the Japanese as the worst features of prisoner of war life.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1996-10