Entry Text: | CYSMITH. Grandad's Wars. 384p., illus. London: Minerva, 1995. ISBN: 1858635349.
An autobiography. The author joined the RN in 1929 aged sixteen. At the start of the war he was in Glasgow standing by Kelvin and spent an active period with her, mainly in Home Waters before joining Euryalus in 1942 as Captain's Yeoman and seeing bitter fighting in the Mediterranean, which is graphically described. She moved to the Home Fleet in 1944 and he left her to move on to the Pacific. |
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