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BUCKINGHAM, Fred F. The Strife is O'er: Trials and Tribulations in the Long and Varied Career of a Royal Navy Sparker. 224p., illus., index. Minster Lovell: Bookmarque, 1993. ISBN: 1870519205.

He joined the Navy in 1929 and was a PO Telegraphist in Havock in the South Atlantic when war broke out. She moved north for the Norwegian campaign, then back for the evacuation of Holland. After a year in Iceland he went to submarines in mid-1941, and after training joined P 35 at Scapa. By year's end she was in Malta. After a hard 14 months P 35 (now Umbra) returned to the UK. She recommissioned as an A/S training submarine based at Campbeltown. In mid-1944 he moved to the depot ship Adamant at Trincomalee and later Fremantle and Hong Kong. An interesting and unusual perspective from a strong character. Published in a limited edition in hardback.

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