| Entry Text: | LAWRENCE, Ivor D. A Naval Schoolmaster Looks Back. v, 286p., illus., index. Worthing: Churchman, 1989. ISBN: 0948601175.
Born in 1901 he joined the Merchant Service in 1917 to train as a deck officer. After the postwar contraction of shipping he trained as a teacher and in 1923 joined the RN as a "schoolie." In late 1939 he joined Aurora and saw service through the Norwegian campaign. He then joined Naiad and saw six months' hard service in the eastern Mediterranean, notably at Crete. Posted home in January 1942 he took a shore post in Edinburgh and toured the country lecturing. Several shore posts took him to discharge in 1946. His war service occupies only some 50 pages. |
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