| Entry Text: | NATION, Andy. A Stoker's Journey: From the Med to Korea in HMAS's Waterhen, Nizam, Warramunga & Sydney. 212p., illus. McCrae: Slouch Hat, 2005. ISBN: 0975835300.
His edited wartime diaries. It begins in 1940 with his passage to Egypt to join Waterhen and covers her busy war until sunk in June 1941. He was then drafted to Nizam and saw more Mediterranean action before she moved east. In late 1942 he received a draft home and after leave joined the new Warramunga. After more hard service in the Pacific he was given a shore job at Milne Bay in the oiling party. At the end of 1944 he moved on to Oro Bay, now as a driver where he stayed until war's end. The final quarter of the book covers the Korean War. |
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