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Object description
Wordprocessor memoir (9pp), written in the late 1990s, giving very brief details of his service from January 1939 as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, notably in the battleship HMS MALAYA in the Atlantic and Mediterranean (February 1940 - spring 1941), his appointment as a Lieutenant in the submarine HMS UNRUFFLED during her very successful patrols in the Mediterranean (August 1942 - October 1943) and his post-war service in submarines, including his command of the hydrogen peroxide-powered HMS METEORITE (formerly the German U 1407) in 1948 and of HMS TELEMACHUS in Australasian waters in 1949; together with copies of obituaries and appreciations of him following his death in 1999 and of various documents relating to the history of HMS UNRUFFLED, among them ts notes (22pp) on her attacks on enemy shipping and other incidents while she was serving with the 10th Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean in 1942 - 1943.
Content description
Wordprocessor memoir (9pp), written in the late 1990s, giving very brief details of his service from January 1939 as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, notably in the battleship HMS MALAYA in the Atlantic and Mediterranean (February 1940 - spring 1941), his appointment as a Lieutenant in the submarine HMS UNRUFFLED during her very successful patrols in the Mediterranean (August 1942 - October 1943) and his post-war service in submarines, including his command of the hydrogen peroxide-powered HMS METEORITE (formerly the German U 1407) in 1948 and of HMS TELEMACHUS in Australasian waters in 1949; together with copies of obituaries and appreciations of him following his death in 1999 and of various documents relating to the history of HMS UNRUFFLED, among them ts notes (22pp) on her attacks on enemy shipping and other incidents while she was serving with the 10th Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean in 1942 - 1943.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2000-04