Because of short-sightedness he began his service as paymaster cadet in Frobisher in the West Indies. Later joining London he evacuated British nationals the day after the Spanish Civil War erupted 1936, as the only Spanish speaker he acted as liaison officer. At outbreak of WW2 he was ...
( January 1945: Active service on HMS Nairana, an aircraft carrier, as Sub Lieutenant G. Lee RNVR. HMS Nairana (D05) was the lead ship of Royal Navy's Nairana-class escort carriers in WW2, operated escorting convoys & doing anti-submarine work in the Atlantic& Arctic. At one stage, ...