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Description: | Ts carbon copy memoir (176pp), written in 1946 mainly in an anecdotal style, describing his early life as a naval officer's son, his training as a cadet at the Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth (1908 - 1911) and in the training cruiser HMS CORNWALL (1912), his service as a midshipman and Sub Lieutenant in HMS BRITANNIA (3rd Battle Squadron, Home/Grand Fleet) from 1912 - 1915, his service as a junior officer in the minesweeping sloop HMS DAHLIA attached to the Grand Fleet (May - September 1915), in the destroyer HMS MATCHLESS with the Harwich Force and the Dover Patrol (April 1916 - April 1917) and in the destroyer HMS MINOS on Atlantic convoy escort duty (May 1917 - August 1918), as assistant navigating officer in the Grand Fleet battle cruiser HMS LION (September 1918 - January 1919) and as navigating officer in the sloop HMS WISTARIA on the North America and West Indies Station (1921 - 1923), as 1st Lieutenant of the sloop HMS MAGNOLIA on the China Station (1925 - 1927), as commanding officer of the fishery protection gunboat HMS BOYNE in the North Sea and Icelandic waters (1931 - 1933), as 1st Lieutenant of the destroyer depot ship HMS SANDHURST in the Mediterranean (1933 - 1935), in command of HMS HUNTLEY (2nd Minesweeping Flotilla) in the Mediterranean and on the China Station (1935 - 1936), in command of the destroyer HMS SABRE in Home waters and latterly on Atlantic convoy duty (November 1937 - December 1940) but with particular reference to her ten trips to Dunkirk to evacuate troops between 27 May and 3 June 1940, and, following his recovery from a fractured skull sustained in heavy seas, in various shore appointments at Combined Operations bases in the United Kingdom (1941 - 1946) including command of HMS JAMES COOK in western Scotland; together with an unpublished ts biography (301pp) of Commander Dean, written by L A Griffith in 1969 and based on the above memoir, conversations with Dean and other official and private sources.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1998-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Dean, B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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