Derek Law's Bibliography

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Entry Text: FOXCROFT, Harry R. Hostilities Only 1940–1945. vi, 178p., illus. Weymouth: Miller-Lee, 1999. ISBN: 0952990814.

He was called up in mid-1940 and after training joined the collier ss Redriffe as a DEMS gunner on the East Coast. In 1943 he undertook officer training then joined the trawler Breeze engaged in special operations as First Lieutenant, working in the Mediterranean and Adriatic. In June 1944 they returned to the UK to commission the Jacques Morgand working in home waters. In spring 1945 he moved to Prodigal then finally and briefly to the repair ship Berry Head.