| Entry Text: | PEYTON JONES, Loftus E. Wartime Wanderings 1939-1945. (6), 330p. bibliog., illus. [n.p.]: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2019. ISBN: 9781979816298. The memoir was first written for his family, but when he died in 2000, his son edited the memoir, adding photographs and archival documents from his father’s collection to pass round the family and friends. A corrected edition was then published in 2019. He joined the RN in 1936 and when war started was a sub-lieutenant on Penelope and served in the Norwegian campaign. In 1940 he commissioned the Hunt Class destroyer Brocklesby which served as a coastal convoy escort. He next joined Achates as her First Lieutenant and served in Arctic convoys until her loss in the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942. He then transferred to submarines and sailed on his first patrol in Sahib in the Mediterranean incSpring 1943. It was his first and last patrol as she was sunk in action and he was rescued and became a POW in Italy. He escaped later that year and was soon appointed captain of the Hunt Class destroyer Easton operating in the Aegean, serving with her until war’s end. An astonishing tale. |
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