Derek Law Bibliography

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BAILEY, Chris Howard. Social Change in the Royal Navy 1924–1970: The Life and Times of Admiral Sir Frank Twiss KCB, KCVO, DSC. xix, 236p., illus., index. Stroud: Sutton, 1996.ISBN: 0750906103.

Frank Twiss joined Dartmouth in 1924 and rose to become Second Sea Lord despite a terrible ordeal as a Japanese POW. The book is based around interviews taped by Chris Howard Bailey for the Royal Naval Museum. He began the war as a Flotilla Gunnery Officer on Malcolm, then early in 1940 stood by Trinidad. In late summer 1940 he was appointed Gunnery Officer of Exeter. He sailed with her for the Far East and her sinking in the Battle of the Java Sea. His four years as a POW are sympathetically described.