| Entry Text: | HENLEY, Francis Austin. Chasing the Golden Fleece: The Wartime Adventures of Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Francis Austin Henley RNVR. x, 58p., illus. Lewes: Book Guild, 2002. ISBN: 1857766326.
A slight but interesting memoir, some of it a contemporary diary. Just after joining up he was whisked off to Norway as a surgeon with the Royal Marines and his experiences there fill half the book. In 1940/41 he set up a blood transfusion service at Chatham, but in mid-1942 transferred to Argonaut where he survived her torpedoing. After a brief spell in Coreopsis he was based ashore in North Africa until 1944 when he came back to the UK for a shore appointment. |
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