Derek Law's Bibliography

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Entry Text: MITCHELL, John. Patchwork of War. vi, 125p., illus. Toowoomba, N.S.W.: Cranbrook, 1984. ISBN: 0959059806.

The autobiography of a RNVR officer. He served briefly on the trawler Flanders in Home Waters then was commissioned and posted to work with landing craft in the Mediterranean. He helped in the evacuation of Crete and was captured at the fall of Tobruk. After a spell as a POW in Italy he was repatriated then served as a beachmaster at the Normandy landings.