| Entry Text: | MILES, Peter. A Gift of Observation. 87p., illus. London: Buckland, 1988. ISBN: 0721207944. About 50 contemporary watercolours. Miles served on Newcastle on the Northern Patrol, at Norway, at Plymouth, and in the Mediterranean, then at the end of 1940 moved to the destroyer Versatile running East Coast convoys. In early 1942 he was appointed to the submarine Clyde in the Mediterranean. After a long refit in the US she operated in the Far East. In mid-1945 he took command of Volatile in the training flotilla at Rothesay. The pictures vividly illustrate all of his activities. |
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