| Entry Text: | COTTRELL, David. Memories of an Unusual Able Seaman on Russian and East Coast Convoys in World War Two. xiii, 132p., illus., index. Weardale: Memoir Club, 2006. ISBN: 1841041416.
The author ran away to sea from Eton, returned, went to Cambridge University but volunteered for the RN as a seaman in late 1941 under the Y Scheme. After training at Ganges, he joined Kent in July 1942 and served in the Arctic. In May 1943 he went to King Alfred but failed the exams and was sent to Puffin on East Coast convoys to improve his signals work. In 1944 he began training as an Electrical Officer and was still in training at war's end. The book also covers his successful post-war career. |
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