| Entry Text: | BULLEY, Hugh. A Boy at Sea. [x], 461p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Velvet Hoof, 2005. ISBN: 0954604512. He grew up as a prep school headmaster's son and went to Dartmouth aged thirteen in 1938. In 1942 he left to join Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria as a snotty. He moved to the a/s auxiliary Cocker to get sea time but soon moved to Eridge and was with her when she was badly damaged by air attack. He then moved to Javelin and then on to Orion. For a busy part of the Mediterranean war. In mid-1943 he returned to the UK for further training at Excellent followed by an appointment to Nith, refitting in Glasgow as a headquarters ship and in which he served off the Normandy coast until her damage from air attack in late June. At the start of 1945 he joined Tyrian refitting for the Eastern then Pacific Fleets, reaching Sydney just before war's end. A full and anecdotal autobiography enriched with the author's own paintings. |
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