| Entry Text: | DE COURCY-IRELAND, S. B. A Naval Life. 454p., illus. Poulton: Englang, 1990.
Born in 1900 he followed a naval career and when war began was Second in Command of Newcastle, which began the war on the Northern Patrol. After a refit in spring 1940 and a summer based at Plymouth she went to the Mediterranean and took part in the Battle of Cape Spartivento before joining the South Atlantic Division. In March 1941 he returned to the UK and a year in a staff post at the Air Ministry, followed by command of a large FAA station in the north of Scotland. In late 1944 he returned to London and a staff post at Combined Ops. HQ. |
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