| Entry Text: | SWALES, Joffre. We Blew and They Were Shattered: The Life and Music of RMB X1522. x, 270p., illus. Haverfordwest: Singing Saw, 1993.
An enjoyable tale. He joined up in 1940 as a bandsman and trained at Deal before joining the new King George V and saw the Bismarck hunt. Later in 1941 he joined Norfolk and saw service in the Arctic including the sinking of Scharnhorst. A spell ashore at the training camp Glendower was followed by joining the RM orchestra, the Oceanaires to entertain the Forces, serving in Germany until war's end. |
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