| Entry Text: | PERRY, Bill. The Lower Deck: Memoirs of a Wartime Sailor. 203p., illus. Victoria, B.C.: Associated Publishing, 2005.
He recalls his naval career from signing on in a former neighbourhood police station across the street from the Calgary Fair Grounds, to his discharge as a petty officer telegraphist at war's end. During the war, he was crewman in two auxiliary vessels, a Fairmile and four corvettes. Focuses on lower deck life. |
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