Peace, War and Friendships: Life Ashore and Afloat in the 1930s and 1940s |
Contents
Chapter Page I Family Reminiscences | 1 |
Early Childhood | 5 |
Early Schooling | 13 |
An All Boys School at last | 24 |
The End of my Days at St Hilarys | 33 |
First Term at H M S Worcester | 44 |
My Remaining Years in a School Ship | 58 |
Across the Atlantic | 75 |
Passage to India | 147 |
Invasion of Malaya | 157 |
A Homecoming for Australian ExPrisoners of War | 165 |
Repatriation of British and Colonial Personnel from China | 177 |
Redirected to Canada | 185 |
Antipodean Adventure Part 1 | 194 |
Antipodean Adventure Part 2 | 204 |
Australia Revisited | 232 |
Common terms and phrases
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