Entry Text: | HARGREAVES, Harry. It Wasn't All Mayhem: The Musings of a Matelot. viii, 193p., illus. Preston, Compaid, 2005. ISBN: 1900604183.
He joined the RN via Ganges in 1933 and received relatively rapid promotion in the Signals Branch. He was serving in Tartar when war was declared and saw further service on Fernie and Wallace. He saw hard active service and this is an interesting anecdotal and opinionated description of life in hard worked destroyers. |
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