Entry Text: | HICKLING, Harold. Sailor at Sea. 224p., illus. London: Kimber, 1965. The enjoyable but guarded memoirs of a seaman. Hickling served in both world wars and, saw action at the 1914 Battle of the Falklands. In WW2 he commanded the dummy ships of Force W then the cruiser Glasgow and later the Normandy Mulberry harbours, retiring as an admiral in 1947. |
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