| Entry Text: | LEACH, Henry. Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections. xiii, 274p., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1993. ISBN: 0850523702.
Leach joined as a Cadet in 1937 and retired as First Sea Lord and an Admiral of the Fleet in 1982. This is an anecdotal rather than analytic biography with notable gaps and an avowed reluctance to criticise. There are 50 pages on WWII. Most of this time was spent at sea, first in Mauritius (and a poignant last meeting in Singapore with his father before he sailed for the last time with Prince of Wales), then in Walpole followed by Duke of York in 1943–1944, including the sinking of the Scharnhorst. He saw out the war in a mutinous Javelin preparing for service in the Far East. |
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