| Entry Text: | JONES, Basil. And So to Battle: A Sailor's Story. 128p., illus. Battle: [author, 1979].
An autobiography much concerned with WWII. The author began the war in command of Ivanhoe in home waters. In January 1940 he was appointed to the Naval Ordnance Department and stayed there until December 1941 when he was appointed to Isis, refitting in Bombay. Until she was ready he acted as the Maintenance Commander at the base at Trincomalee. When Isis moved to the Mediterranean in February 1943 he was appointed Commander(D) of the 12th Flotilla in Pakenham and based on Malta. She was sunk and he returned to Isis which was soon based at Gibraltar. In March 1944 he was appointed Captain(D) of the 10th Flotilla in Tartar and aggressively kept the Channel free of Germans until February 1945 when she sailed East to Ceylon. He later retired as Senior Captain of the Fleet. |
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