| Entry Text: | LEWIS, A. H. A Caul & Some Wartime Experiences. iii, 136p., illus. Newton Abbot: author, 1995.
Lewis joined the RNVR in mid-1939 and was called up in September as a Stores Assistant at Devonport. He soon moved to the submarine depot ship Forth in Scotland. In mid-1940 came Norfolk and the Northern Patrol. In January 1941 he became an officer cadet and trained at King Alfred before appointment in March 1941 to Coastal Forces as spare officer of the 3rd MGB Flotilla based at Fowey then the 7th ML Flotilla at Dartmouth. In March 1942 he joined the 19th Flotilla as First Lieutenant of MTB 336. The flotilla immediately moved to the West Indies for escort and rescue duties. After a year he and other officers helped ship a flotilla of LCTs to Gibraltar from the Chesapeake Bay then returned to the UK. He next commissioned MTB 705 at Southampton which joined the 59th MTB Flotilla at Dover in late 1943, undertaking 110 operational patrols in the next six months up to and including D-Day. In August he joined the new MTB 766 but was hospitalised after an accident and returned to command the older MTB 612. After more action in the Channel he moved as a Training Officer to the Coastal Forces Base in Anglesey in March 1945. |
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