| Entry Text: | GARTSIDE, Vivian O. B. Nile Additional: An Account of a Few Very Ordinary Adventures of a Very Ordinary "Temporary Surgeon Lieut." in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Being Factual Rather than Imaginative. 148p., illus. Canterbury: Gibb & Sons, 1947.
The author served on RHN Adrias for six months in the South Atlantic and Mediterranean, then moved to the gunboat Scarab for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. From October 1943–October 1944 he was based on the stone frigate HMS Nile at Alexandria. He saw out the European war as Base Medical Officer at Piraeus during the liberation and civil war. |
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