| Entry Text: | MAHER, Brendan A. A Passage to Sword Beach: Minesweeping in the Royal Navy. xvii, 249p., illus., index Annapolis: NIP; Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1996. ISBN: 1557505721.
Maher joined up aged 18 in 1943. After training he joined Jason as a midshipman and on 1 May 1944 was promoted Sublieutenant on ML 137, equipped for minesweeping, which she did off Sword Beach. ML 137 took part in the clearance of Cherbourg and Brest. In June 1945 he was injured in a minesweeping accident in the Netherlands and was hospitalised, completing treatment early in 1947, when he was discharged. |
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