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I joined the Royal Navy at Pompy on 3rd September and found the country at war. I was snatched from my summer leave and sent to the Isle of Man, Douglas. I soon found myself along with other boys sent back to the mainland to join a sea going ship. Not a lot of young boys made it at that time. From the 1940’s onwards, they went down on the Hood and Royal Oak, but I ended up on the Battleship King George V, getting five medals; one anniversary, one Maltese and two anniversary Russian. One, I found myself going around all those countries I went to on my Mediterranean cruises. Only this time I was firing shells at them. My old Liner went right through the war as a Trooper and was broken up in 1958.

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