Description
Object description
Photocopies of extracts from his ts memoirs (pp 5-13 only), written in 2004, covering his service as a 'hostilities only' CW rating in the cruiser HMS DIDO, describing his duties in the ship and her deployment with the Home Fleet based on Scapa Flow (January – March 1941) and then with the Mediterranean Fleet based on Alexandria until she was severely damaged by air attack during the evacuation from Crete and ordered to South Africa for repairs (April – June 1941); his return to the United Kingdom on the troopship BERGENSFIORD and successful completion of his training as an officer cadet in the shore establishment HMS KING ALFRED (July – December 1941); his service as a junior RNVR officer in ML 104 and then in command of ML 101 (both 50th ML Flotilla) attached to HMS WASP, the Coastal Forces base in Dover, where they were employed principally on minelaying duties off the coasts of occupied France and Belgium and, after D-Day, on escorting convoys bound for Normandy through the Straits of Dover (early 1942 – August 1944); and his service in the Coastal Forces section of the Directorate of Manning at the Admiralty (August 1944 – January 1946).
Content description
Photocopies of extracts from his ts memoirs (pp 5-13 only), written in 2004, covering his service as a 'hostilities only' CW rating in the cruiser HMS DIDO, describing his duties in the ship and her deployment with the Home Fleet based on Scapa Flow (January – March 1941) and then with the Mediterranean Fleet based on Alexandria until she was severely damaged by air attack during the evacuation from Crete and ordered to South Africa for repairs (April – June 1941); his return to the United Kingdom on the troopship BERGENSFIORD and successful completion of his training as an officer cadet in the shore establishment HMS KING ALFRED (July – December 1941); his service as a junior RNVR officer in ML 104 and then in command of ML 101 (both 50th ML Flotilla) attached to HMS WASP, the Coastal Forces base in Dover, where they were employed principally on minelaying duties off the coasts of occupied France and Belgium and, after D-Day, on escorting convoys bound for Normandy through the Straits of Dover (early 1942 – August 1944); and his service in the Coastal Forces section of the Directorate of Manning at the Admiralty (August 1944 – January 1946).
History note
Cataloguer RWAS