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Sailed out of Southampton Jan 1956 as 4th r/o on BI troopship Dunera dropping off troops at Cyprus, Aden, Singapore, Hong Kong, then to Japan empty to pick up a New Zealand regiment - Korea being over. Two trips on her. Then on my own on a Jimmy Nourse tramp, the Hughli.
Then a Cory collier out of the Tyne. From Baked Alaska at dinner on the trooper I was now on fish and chips with bread and butter that the hairy-chested cook in a string vest sent the cabin boy into Battersea to buy at the chippy.
Things looked up when I joined Brocklebanks in 1957 . . .
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