A Home on the Rolling Main - Ditcham, Estate Of a G F
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From first joining the Royal Navy in 1940 until the end of the campaign against Japan, Ditcham was in the front line of the naval war. After brief service in the battlecruiser Renown off Norway and against the Italians, he went into destroyers and saw action in most European theatres - against S-boats and aircraft in 'bomb alley' off Britain's East Coast, on Arctic convoys to Russia, and eventually in a flotilla screening the Home Fleet. During the Battle of the North Cape he had a grandstand view of the sinking of the great German battleship the Scharnhorst as the gun director of HMS…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
From first joining the Royal Navy in 1940 until the end of the campaign against Japan, Ditcham was in the front line of the naval war. After brief service in the battlecruiser Renown off Norway and against the Italians, he went into destroyers and saw action in most European theatres - against S-boats and aircraft in 'bomb alley' off Britain's East Coast, on Arctic convoys to Russia, and eventually in a flotilla screening the Home Fleet. During the Battle of the North Cape he had a grandstand view of the sinking of the great German battleship the Scharnhorst as the gun director of HMS Scorpion. Later his ship operated off the American beaches during D-Day, where two of her sister ships were sunk with heavy loss of life, and he ended the war in British Pacific Fleet preparing for the invasion of Japan.
Autorenporträt
Tony Ditcham DSC was educated in the Training Ship HMS Worcester before having a distinguished career in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, during which he served in destroyers. After the War he attended both Oxford and London Universities and worked in many fields including the Overseas Civil Service in Nigeria. He continued to sail until 1992 and, at the age of 85, was the oldest stable lad in the UK.