| Entry Text: | SLATER, Ian. Jacob's Ladder: A Grateful and Memorable Tribute to the Royal Navy, 1939-45. [xiii], 5–170p., illus., index. Tunbridge Wells: Parapress, 1993. ISBN: 0952182300.
He joined the London RNVR in June 1939. After training he was sent to Singapore, but by March 1940 had joined Kent patrolling in the Indian Ocean. She soon joined the Mediterranean Fleet, suffered bomb damage, and returned to the UK. After shore time and now technically in the FAA, he joined Shropshire, supporting her Walrus crew and headed first for Simonstown then attachment to the Home Fleet at Scapa in mid-1941. That October she went to Chatham for a major refit then in March moved to Simonstown. When she returned to the UK six months later he had a spell ashore before joining Asturias in March 1943. She was torpedoed but not sunk later in the year and he moved back to the UK as an instructor at Daedalus. A good story which rather fizzles out. |
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