Peace, War and Friendships: Life Ashore and Afloat in the 1930s and 1940sRoxana Chapman, 2006 - 256 pages |
Contents
Chapter Page I Family Reminiscences | 1 |
Early Childhood | 5 |
Early Schooling | 13 |
An All Boys School at last | 24 |
The End of my Days at St Hilarys | 33 |
First Term at H M S Worcester | 44 |
My Remaining Years in a School Ship | 58 |
Across the Atlantic | 75 |
Passage to India | 147 |
Invasion of Malaya | 157 |
A Homecoming for Australian ExPrisoners of War | 165 |
Repatriation of British and Colonial Personnel from China | 177 |
Redirected to Canada | 185 |
Antipodean Adventure Part 1 | 194 |
Antipodean Adventure Part 2 | 204 |
Australia Revisited | 232 |
Common terms and phrases
aboard accompanied afternoon Afterwards Arawa arrived ashore aunt Bonifacio Strait Bosporus boys bridge British Apprentice Club buildings cadet captain canal Canterbury Plains caught church cinema colour convoy Coogee course dance Dardanelles deck dined dinner Durban Eileen entered eventually father feet film following morning Foots Cray Foots Cray Place garden George Irvine Gough ground harbour hills Hookwood Horley horse Island Jackson Keppel Harbour later left our anchorage left our berth left the ship looked Lowfield Heath lunch miles mother night o'clock occasion Odessa Officer parents Park passed play port Port Jackson Pugh remember returned River road rugby football Russian sailed seen ship's shops side soon spent St Hilary's School Strait Street Sunday Taranto Tenney tied up alongside took town train tram Transfield trees visited voyage walked watch wharf Worcester