| Entry Text: | GORDON, John. Ordinary Seaman (A Teenage Memoir). 112p. London: Walker, 1992. ISBN: 0744523788.
One of a series for young people describing teenage life. He was called up at Christmas 1943. After training at Collingwood and Whale Island he joined the minesweeper Foam. He soon transferred to Stevenstone and went to the Mediterranean, where he saw the various postwar problems of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Corfu Incident to Palestinian refugees. A thin account of his experiences. |
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