| Entry Text: | WARD, Peter. From Africa to the Arctic: A Year on the Destroyer HMS Beagle During WWII. x, 86p., bibliog., illus. Studley: Brewin, 2003. ISBN: 1858582377.
He was a Leading Seaman Radar aged 21 and this memoir is based on his contemporary diary. She sailed to Freetown in mid-1943 and was based there as an escort. Late in the year she moved back to the UK for Arctic convoys, starting with JW54B. After RA59 she moved back to the UK for D-Day. The diary concludes at the end of June 1944. |
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