| Entry Text: | DRAKE, Lawson. Sea Over Bow: A Prince Edward Islander in the Royal Canadian Volunteer Reserve in World War II. vi, 158., bibliog., illus. Cornwall, P.E.I.: [author], 2000. ISBN: 096878710X.
An autobiography. He joined up in 1940 and after training joined Prince David as an Ordinary Seaman, serving first in the Caribbean and then the Aleutians. When she went for conversion to a landing ship, he was drafted to Glasgow as a Leading Seaman at the very end of 1943. He stayed with her until after D-Day then crossed to Canada with Sheffield, before joining Uganda for service in the Pacific before returning home for discharge at war's end. |
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