| Entry Text: | HAGGER, Percy. HMS Bedouin and the Long March Home. [ii], 188p., illus. Ringwood: Navigator, 1994.
He joined Ganges as a Boy Seaman in 1937 and soon after the war started joined Bedouin as a Torpedoman. A busy war followed; Norway, the Lofoten Raid; Arctic, Atlantic, and Malta convoys, in the last of which she was sunk in June 1942. Picked up by an Italian `hospital ship, the second half of the book describes his experiences as a POW in Italy and Germany. |
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