Derek Law's Bibliography

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Entry Text: HICKS, Peter. Sailors Don't Cry: Life in the 30s and 40s at Sea and Ashore. An Autobiography. ix, 141p., illus. Oxford: Axicon, 1997. ISBN: 0906926017.

On his father's death in June 1939, he went to train at HMS Worcester. After training he went to P&O and joined the trooper Strathnaver in early 1944, making several trips before war's end.