| Entry Text: | BREEN, Derric A. Young Men at War. 223p., bibliog., illus. [n.p.]: author, 1995.
The author grew up in a pit village in County Durham and was at College when he was called up in 1940. He was sent to train as a telegraphist at Royal Arthur in Skegness. After training he went to Egret, a sloop initially protecting east coast convoys against and later on convoy work in the Atlantic. He then went as an Officer Cadet to Lancing College and, after further training in Scotland, to Newhaven to serve on a Fairmile RML, serving on ML 1157 and eventually commanding ML 1391 on the South Coast. In 1944 he was sent to Freetown to join HMS Pict an anti-submarine trawler and remained with her until he returned home, finally having been promoted to Lieutenant, in 1945. A wonderful description of life at the sharp end of the war with everything from snakes to shipwrecks. |
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