| Entry Text: | SOUTHERN, George. HMS Zetland: George's Story. c.122p., Kindle; author, 2012.
He was drafted into the RN in early 1942. After training at Collingwood he was posted to the newly built Zetland on which he served from 1942 to 1944. His story covers her sea trials then life at sea covering Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys, including Operation TORCH. He was at the port of Bari when it was raided in December 1943, and was decorated for his work that night. In 1944 he was hospitalized as a consequence of the Bari raid. After recovering, he went on to serve with Naval Police and in other shore basis in Naples and in Sicily before being demobbed in 1946. |
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