| Entry Text: | GATACRE, G. G. O. A Naval Career: Reports of Proceedings 1921–1964. [iv], 379p., illus. Manly, N.S.W.: Nautical, 1982. ISBN: 0949756024.
A disappointing memoir of a distinguished career. He began the war as Navigating Officer of Edinburgh in home waters. In April 1940 he moved to Renown for a month, then via the training school Dryad to Rodney and Nelson based at Scapa. There were 10 months of Atlantic convoys, the Bismarck hunt and Mediterranean convoys with Force H, then the Home Fleet. In 1942 he returned to Australia and joined Australia as a Staff Officer to Admiral Crace with TF44, operating in the Solomons and New Guinea area. In August 1943 she was redeployed to the Southwest Pacific as part of TF74. In late 1944 he was appointed to the Australian Naval Staff for post-war planning. |
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