| Entry Text: | CATLOW, T. N. A Sailor's Survival: Memoirs of a Naval Officer. viii, 227p., illus. Lewes: Book Guild, 1997. ISBN: 1857761596.
Catlow went to the Royal Naval College in 1928. By 1939 he was in submarines and had the unenviable task of breaking to families the news of the loss of Thetis. That September he was Third Hand on Trident and later spare First Lieutenant at Harwich. For the second half of 1940 he was First Lieutenant of Clyde and at the beginning of 1941 did his Perisher. He was appointed spare Captain at Gibraltar and in early 1942 flew as a replacement to Malta. His plane was shot down over Sicily and he was captured. Keen to escape he got out of camp and as far as Denmark as a result of which he spent the rest of the war in Colditz. The book also describes the rest of his career. |
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