| Entry Text: | GAMBLE, Mark. Our Vic: The Story of a Leicestershire Sailor. 112p., bibliog., illus., index. Leicester: author, 2005.
Tells the story of three brothers, Vic, Bill and Eric Foster, and their friends and contemporaries from Thurmaston, Leicestershire. It explains how the three went to war and how one of them, Vic Foster, did not return. He served aboard Volunteer in the Atlantic and Arctic but in 1943 transferred to Combined Operations and joined HMLST418 in the United States before she moved to the Mediterranean. He was lost aboard the ship in February 1944, when she was torpedoed. The book also tells the story of Bill Foster's escape from Singapore and Eric Foster's time in India. Published in 200 copies. |
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