| Entry Text: | HOLT, F. S. A Banker All at Sea: Being World War II Naval Memoirs (1941–46). 287p. Newtown: Neptune Press, 1983. ISBN: 0949583057.
He went from Australia and a reserved occupation in 1941 to the UK. He spent 1942 as a seaman in the new destroyer Panther, working up and then at Colombo, before moving to King Alfred. The next year was spent as a sublieutenant on Intrepid, first based on Iceland and covering Murmansk convoys, then in the Mediterranean. In November 1943 she was sunk in Leros Harbour. He then spent 10 months as a Lieutenant on Terpsichore in the Mediterranean, before returning to Australia to become First Lieutenant of Gascoyne from January 1945. |
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