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A brief ts memoir (10pp) written largely in the third person, about his family, including his father, Cyril Talbot Clover, who served in the Royal Navy as an Engineer Officer, as Engineer Lieutenant Commander in HMS CHESTER at the Battle of Jutland, after the war supervising the construction of the engine room of HMS RAMILLIES and later becoming Admiral Engineer Overseer for the South of England District, Antony Clover's birth in 1917 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, childhood in Cornwell, schooling in Southsea, and Portsmouth Grammar School, growing up in Southsea, joining the school's Officer's Training Corps, moving to Fareham, Hampshire (1933), leaving school and joining a Solicitor's office as a clerk (1935), joining the Portsmouth Ciné Club (later Portsmouth Film Society), studying for the Law Society Examinations while also studying costal navigation to apply for the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (1939), reporting to HMS KING ALFRED, a shore establishment at Hove, for training (November 1939), discovering his red green colour blindness, brief appointment in HMS VERNON, torpedo and mining school in Portsmouth (January - February 1940), posting to the cruiser HMS CERES as junior Paymaster, seeing HMS EXETER return to Devenport from the Battle of the River Plate with sheets to cover battle damage, sailing to Gibraltar, with stops in Malta, before going to Colombo, Ceylon, and Singapore (March 1940), anecdotes of time in Singapore, sailing down the coast of East Africa, time in Tanganyika and South Africa, duties as Assistant Paymaster and Cypher Officer, health problems leading to his joining the cypher staff in Aden (May 1941), sailing in HMS CARLISLE to Gibraltar via Durban, South Africa, returning to the UK (June 1942), working as Confidential Book Officer at Milford Haven (September 1943 - September 1945), then posting as Casualty Officer in the Drafting Office (RN Barracks, Portsmouth), his demobilisation, sitting the exams and becoming a solicitor. [Amateur film shot by him of his time in Malta, Aden, Abyssinia, and South Africa is held in the Film Archive].
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A brief ts memoir (10pp) written largely in the third person, about his family, including his father, Cyril Talbot Clover, who served in the Royal Navy as an Engineer Officer, as Engineer Lieutenant Commander in HMS CHESTER at the Battle of Jutland, after the war supervising the construction of the engine room of HMS RAMILLIES and later becoming Admiral Engineer Overseer for the South of England District, Antony Clover's birth in 1917 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, childhood in Cornwell, schooling in Southsea, and Portsmouth Grammar School, growing up in Southsea, joining the school's Officer's Training Corps, moving to Fareham, Hampshire (1933), leaving school and joining a Solicitor's office as a clerk (1935), joining the Portsmouth Ciné Club (later Portsmouth Film Society), studying for the Law Society Examinations while also studying costal navigation to apply for the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (1939), reporting to HMS KING ALFRED, a shore establishment at Hove, for training (November 1939), discovering his red green colour blindness, brief appointment in HMS VERNON, torpedo and mining school in Portsmouth (January - February 1940), posting to the cruiser HMS CERES as junior Paymaster, seeing HMS EXETER return to Devenport from the Battle of the River Plate with sheets to cover battle damage, sailing to Gibraltar, with stops in Malta, before going to Colombo, Ceylon, and Singapore (March 1940), anecdotes of time in Singapore, sailing down the coast of East Africa, time in Tanganyika and South Africa, duties as Assistant Paymaster and Cypher Officer, health problems leading to his joining the cypher staff in Aden (May 1941), sailing in HMS CARLISLE to Gibraltar via Durban, South Africa, returning to the UK (June 1942), working as Confidential Book Officer at Milford Haven (September 1943 - September 1945), then posting as Casualty Officer in the Drafting Office (RN Barracks, Portsmouth), his demobilisation, sitting the exams and becoming a solicitor. [Amateur film shot by him of his time in Malta, Aden, Abyssinia, and South Africa is held in the Film Archive].
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