The Independent - London, May 29th, 2000
T. E. FANSHAWE was an acting Sub-Lieutenant (probationary) in the Royal Naval Reserves when the Second World War began in 1939; he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy when it ended and a Captain when he retired in 1971.
He had an unusually lucky war to start with. Appointed to Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, he was seconded to a patrol drifter a few days before the old battleship was torpedoed by U-47 in September 1939; then, although appointed to Iron Duke, which was bombed and beached there in October, he had been sent to another drifter hours before the attack. A year later, he left the Armed Merc...
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