| Entry Text: | LA NIECE, P. G. Not a Nine to Five Job. 248p., illus., index. Yalding: Charltons, 1992. ISBN: 0952021900.
Covers his career from 1937 to 1955. At the outbreak of war he was a midshipman on Mohawk in the Mediterranean. He transferred to Barham and shortly after to Hood then Warspite and the Northern Patrol. In mid-1940 he did his Gunnery Course and joined Lydd at Grimsby then Birmingham and the Home Fleet at the end of the year. She led a busy life in the South Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean. He then transferred to the Dutch cruiser Heemskerck as Liaison Officer based at Sydney. In March 1943 he returned to the UK and joined Viscount as First Lieutenant in the Liverpool Escort Force. In June 1944 he joined the training cruiser Dauntless then went on his long Gunnery Course toward war's end. |
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