| Entry Text: | LONG, Terence. Memoirs of a Minor Transgressor. xiv, 544p. Ely: Melrose, 2008. ISBN: 9781906050719.
The only son of an Irish father and an English mother, at the age of seven he left India with his mother, who had decided to return to England following the death of his father. He entered the Royal Navy, in which he served as a signalman on trawlers in the North Sea and the Channel. He was commissioned and transferred to landing craft. He saw action in Sicily, Italy then Normandy. Drafted to the Far East, he eventually left the Navy and became a tea planter in Assam. Some years after that, he and some friends migrated to Australia, to eventually settle in Western Australia, where he became a pioneer farmer. |
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