| Entry Text: | MILLER, Alan J. M. Over the Horizon 1939–1945. [viii], 191p., bibliog., illus. Finavon: Finavon Print, 1999. ISBN: 0952881365.
Based on his illicit wartime diary. He served first in Dorsetshire joining her in Hong Kong in October 1939 as an RNVR Officer and seeing service in the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic, mainly hunting commerce raiders or as convoy escort. After a brief refit in the UK and more of this work he joined the new destroyer Brocklesby as a sublieutenant. She took part in the St. Nazaire and Dieppe Raids as well as convoy work. From November 1942 he spent six months standing by the refitting Griffin, but when she transferred to the RCN he joined Orwell as First Lieutenant. She served with the Home Fleet and in the Atlantic and Russian convoys, notably taking part in the sinking of the Scharnhorst. In April 1944 he took over the new Fitzroy as CO, based at Harwich. In September 1944 he went to Greenwich for the six-month staff course and in March 1945 took over Wolverine and was based at Gibraltar until VE Day. After paying her off he finally took over Holderness in July 1945 shuttling back and forth to Europe |
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