I would like to thank the following shipmates for their invaluable help
in adding details to my distant memories and for forging links of friendship
that had long been lost:
Tom King, Jack Hall, Tom 'Buck' Taylor, John 'Spegal' Spicer, Duncan Carson,
Eric Stone, John Fenby, 'Knocker' White, Ron 'Marmite' Rawlings, George
Merrion, Arthur Chubb, Magnus Shearer, George Cook, Jack Keen, George Gill,
Ted Fay, Albert Tait, Mrs. Toni Smith (widow of John Smith), David Drew,
Tony 'Ace' Walter, Malcolm Ferguson (son of Arthur Ferguson), Dora Scott
(widow of George Scott), Michael Gould, Jack Gould, Stewart Sharples, Arthur
Jones from Laforey and Harvey Bennet from Loyal.
I would particularly like to thank Malcolm Dyer and also Colin Green who
have kindly shared their own research on HMS Lightning with me, enabling
me to make this book as complete as possible. Stewart Sharples has kindly
supplied several action photographs from the time.
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