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A ts memoir entitled 'Content Am I' (73pp, with interleaved copies of sketches illustrating places he visited), giving brief details of his growing up in North London (1908), First World War, leaving school to work as an assistant printer (1922), before enlisting in the Royal Marines (September 1925), training in the monitor HMS MARSHAL SOULT at Plymouth (1926 - 1927), posting to HMS RAMILLIES (2nd Battle Squadron, Atlantic Fleet) in the UK and West Africa, and then to Malta (1927 - 1929) (1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet), taking a signals course, returning to Plymouth and applying for a printer's position, training in Chatham and Portsmouth, serving on the China Station in the cruisers HMS SUFFOLK and HMS KENT (5th Cruiser Squadron) (1934 - 1936), with promotion to Corporal, returning to the UK and re-engaging for a further nine years, promotion to Sergeant (1938), posting to Chatham dockyard, posting to China, travelling in SS EMPRESS OF INDIA (1940), based in Singapore Naval Base (1940 - 1942), noting the lack of preparations and air raids in 1942, escaping to Bombay in SS FELIX ROUSSEL, posting as a printer and secretary to Ceylon, with details of the panic during the bombing of Colombo (Easter 1942), moving to Mombasa, Kenya, promotion to Colour Sergeant, returning to Ceylon until March 1944, returning to the UK, becoming a printer at Chatham during the V weapon activity, assisting a Conservative candidate during the 1945 General Election, leaving the Royal Marines (1947), and details of his civilian jobs in printing until his retirement.
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A ts memoir entitled 'Content Am I' (73pp, with interleaved copies of sketches illustrating places he visited), giving brief details of his growing up in North London (1908), First World War, leaving school to work as an assistant printer (1922), before enlisting in the Royal Marines (September 1925), training in the monitor HMS MARSHAL SOULT at Plymouth (1926 - 1927), posting to HMS RAMILLIES (2nd Battle Squadron, Atlantic Fleet) in the UK and West Africa, and then to Malta (1927 - 1929) (1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet), taking a signals course, returning to Plymouth and applying for a printer's position, training in Chatham and Portsmouth, serving on the China Station in the cruisers HMS SUFFOLK and HMS KENT (5th Cruiser Squadron) (1934 - 1936), with promotion to Corporal, returning to the UK and re-engaging for a further nine years, promotion to Sergeant (1938), posting to Chatham dockyard, posting to China, travelling in SS EMPRESS OF INDIA (1940), based in Singapore Naval Base (1940 - 1942), noting the lack of preparations and air raids in 1942, escaping to Bombay in SS FELIX ROUSSEL, posting as a printer and secretary to Ceylon, with details of the panic during the bombing of Colombo (Easter 1942), moving to Mombasa, Kenya, promotion to Colour Sergeant, returning to Ceylon until March 1944, returning to the UK, becoming a printer at Chatham during the V weapon activity, assisting a Conservative candidate during the 1945 General Election, leaving the Royal Marines (1947), and details of his civilian jobs in printing until his retirement.
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