Derek Law Bibliography

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AVERY, K. R. A Dose of Salts. 270p., illus. Braunton: Merlin, 1988. ISBN: 0863033806.

The memoir of a 30-year career in which the author rose from Sick Bay Attendant to Lieutenant Commander. About 80 sometimes gruesome pages view the war from the sick bay. He was in Singapore in 1939, returned to Plymouth in 1940, went to the US and eventually joined Stalker on her commissioning. She saw action in the Mediterranean and after convoy work, he left in early 1944 to be based at Plymouth. He was there for a year before moving to Australia for the final months of the war. An interesting tale from an unusual viewpoint.