| Entry Text: | GURR, John A. In Peace and War: A Chronicle of Experiences in the Royal Navy, 1922–1946. 286p., illus., index. Worcester: Square One, 1993.ISBN: 187201772X.
The author joined the RN as an apprentice artificer and after almost five years training joined the battleship Emperor of India. He then served in a variety of cruisers and destroyers and was serving in Ajax when war was declared. He saw service at the Battle of the River Plate, at Crete, and Matapan. In June 1942 he returned to the UK and joined 22 MTB Flotilla as CERA at Lowestoft. He next saw service in the repair ship Greenwich at Iceland, and finally joined Euryalus for service with the Pacific Fleet. |
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