| Entry Text: | WARDLE, Hugh. Forecastle to Quarterdeck: Memoirs 1935–45. [x], 154p., illus. Hayling Island: CPW Books, 1994. ISBN: 095231620X.
He joined up as a seaman in 1936 and at the outbreak of war was at Devonport training in torpedoes At the end of the year he joined Griffin based at Harwich and Scapa and took part in the evacuation of France. She moved in late 1940 to the Eastern Mediterranean and took part in the bruising battles there until she joined the Eastern Fleet in February 1942. At the end of the year she returned to the UK and, now a PO he undertook nine months training before joining Inconstant in January 1944, based at Gourock, first for Arctic convoys then as part of the D-Day forces and latterly in the Western Approaches. |
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