“ I enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1943 and when I was 17 joined my first ship H.M.S. Devonshire in Scapa Flow. Devonshire was by then a rather long in the tooth 10,000-ton cruiser with a main armament ...
He joined at Rosyth Scotland, age 19 years and was sent for training to Portsmouth Barracks, then on to Devonshire Barracks prior to joining the 2nd Submarine Flotilla, parent ship The Lucia, for two ...