| Entry Text: | POCOCK, Lovell. With Those in Peril: A Chaplain's Life in the Royal Navy. 316p., illus. Upton-upon-Severn: [author], 1989. ISBN: 1854210475.
September 1939 found the author as the young chaplain of the 11th Cruiser Squadron on Ceres, where he spent the winter on the Northern Patrol. In February 1940 he sailed to Singapore as Chaplain of the Naval Base, where he stayed until escaping to Ceylon early in 1942. From May 1942 to June 1944 he was Chaplain to the Royal Marine's 2nd MNBDO in England, Egypt, Malta, Sicily, and Scotland before spending the last part of the war at the Marines depot at Deal in Kent. The final third of the book covers his postwar career. The book was first published in 1986, but is more commonly available in this edition. |
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