Author: Jones, Captain Basil, D.S.O.*, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret'd),
Title: AND SO TO BATTLE - A Sailor's Story.
Description: Privately Published by author, Battle, East Sussex, [1976] 1st., paperback, 128pp, half tone photo ills. in text, large format (8 x 6" approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, the origianal edition (some pirated extracts exist), the experiences of Captain Basil Jones who served for 38 years in the Royal Navy, training at Osborne and Dartmouth and as a Midshipman serving from September 1917 in the battleship HMS Emperor of India as operator the new 36" Harrison searchlights. He trained as a balloonist and was shot spotter during main armament firings. After WW1 he served in the Black Sea 1920-21, the Mediteranean 1922-26, on the staff of the Royal Naval Gunnery School 1928-29, was 2nd Gunnery Officer in HMS Royal Oak 1929-30, 1st Lt. HMS Douglas and Gunnery Officer Mediterranean Submarine Flotilla 1930-31, Staff Officer British Naval Mission to Greece 1931, Gunnery Officer HMS Achilles 1933-36, 1st Lt. HMS Excellent 1936-37, Command of HMS Walpole 1938, Command HMS Ivanhoe in Mediterranean 1938-39 and North Sea 1939-40, Assistant to Director Naval Ordnance, Admiraly, 1940-41, Maintenance Commander Trincomalee Naval Base, 1942, served in the Mediterranean 1943, in command 10th Destroyer Flotilla (HMS Tartar) in English Channel and Bay of Biscay 1944 (the narrative includes a sought after account of the action with German destroyers off the coast of France), East Indies 1945, Captain of Royal Gunnery School, Chatham 1946-48, Assistant Director of Operations Division (Ship Target Trials) 1948-49, Captain HM Dpckyard, Chatham, 1949-51, Capt. 5 Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Sqn 1951 until placed on the retired list in 1953, rubbed at extrems., creasing to spine and cnrs. of wrappers, good,

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