Derek Law Bibliography

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BROWN, Tommy. From Engine Room to Admiralty. vii, 308p., illus. Ringwood: Navigator, 1995. ISBN: 0902830570.

He went to Dartmouth in 1930 and by 1939 was a Lieutenant (E) on Valiant then being modernised. Work up in Bermuda was followed by Scapa, Norway, Mers-el-Kebir and Alexandria, including the Matapan action. In mid-1941 he returned to the UK for a gunnery engineering course via the Pacific and North America. After two months as a gunmounting overseer in Newcastle, he joined Nelson at the end of 1943 at Rosyth. She provided fire support for D-Day then went to Philadelphia for a major refit before a gentle peregrination to the Far East, arriving at Trincomalee in July 1945 and after limited action took part in the surrender of Singapore. He went on to serve until 1958 and this too is described. The contented memories of a contented man.