| Entry Text: | GLANVILLE, Trevor, & GLANVILLE, Geoffrey. A Twins Eye View. x, 259p., illus. [n.p.: authors], 1991. ISBN: 0951816306.
The autobiography of two bachelor twin brothers who spent most of their lives working for the community. They were called up in October 1939 and after training were appointed to an MTB flotilla based at Portsmouth. Several months of training and patrolling were followed by a hectic raid in support of the Dutch, and a planned but failed attempt to destroy the North Sea lock gates of the Zuider Zee. Then came night patrols covering the Dunkirk evacuation. Geoffrey alone took part in these events as Trevor was reserve navigator for the flotilla. Nervous exhaustion for Geoffrey and six months shore duty followed for the twins, who were kept together as Divisional Officers of the New Entry Training Staff at the Royal Naval Barracks and later at HMS Royal Arthur in Skegness. Trevor was invalided out and shortly afterward in 1943, Geoffrey was appointed to command the converted A/A paddle steamer HMS Plinlimmon in the Thames. Later that year he was appointed to HMS Armadillo in Glen Finart where beachmasters were trained. After D-Day he was sent to Glasgow University for a course on Japan, but was demobilised in July 1945. |
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