| Entry Text: | SHERWOOD, Martyn. Coston Gun. vii, 289p., frontis. London: Bles, 1946.
Sherwood shoots a very engaging biographic line covering 1902–1945. He was recalled to service in 1939 and refitted King Gruffyd as a Q Ship. He then served in the trawlers Lord Wakefield in the Bristol Channel and Cape Passaro in Norway, where he was sunk. He next took command of Peony and led a group of minesweeping corvettes to the Mediterranean, where he fought hard on the Spud Run, on the evacuations of Greece and Crete, and in the Eastern Mediterranean. When she was sold to Greece, he spent the next 12 months ferrying groups of LCI(L)s from the USA to Gibraltar. His final period of service in Hart and Highlander is covered in desultory fashion. |
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