| Entry Text: | GRITTEN, John. Full Circle: Log of the Navy's No. 1 Conscript. 319p.,bibliog., illus., index. Dunfermline: Cualann, 2003. ISBN: 0953503690.
In 1939 as a young journalist he was called up as RN Special Reservist No. 1 and became a stoker. This lively account of his service describes his service in Afridi, notably in the Norwegian campaign. He then had a spell on shore with the Humber Boiler Cleaning Party at Hull. In 1943 he moved to Danae as a leading stoker but six months later was transferred as a Temporary Acting Sub-Lieutenant to the Press Division of the Admiralty. He covered the D-Day landings from an LCT and became Press Liaison Officer for the beachhead then covered the Walcheren assault. He then moved east and covered the landings in Arakan and moved full circle when he was on Tartar on a successful anti-shipping sweep in June 1945. A lively tale. |
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