GUNBOAT COMMAND - The Life of 'Hitch' Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO*, DSC** RNVR 1909-1943

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reprint, xviii, 348pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, a biography of the author's father, the Cornish country soliicitor who became famous for his exploits in Coastal Forces during WW2 and based on his diaries and his account "We Fought them in Gunboats", Robert Hichens joined the Royal Navy as an experienced yachtsman in October 1939 and found himself commissioned as a Sub-Lt. in the RNV(Supplementary)R, posted to King Alfred for training he passed out in December and was appointed to the fleet minesweeper HMS Halcyon as a Lieutenant, later HMS Niger taking control of gunnery. The biography covers his experiences from his time on the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940 to his death in 1943 when he held the rank of Lt. Cdr., DSO and bar, DSC and 2 bars, in command of the 8th Motor Gun Boat flotilla, and was acknowledged as having made a considerable contribution to the development of the armaments and tactics of the MGB's of RN Coastal Forces, very slightly cocked, dustwrapper: tiny rub at tail of spine, ISBN:9781844156566 near fine in a near fine dustwrapper, N° de ref. del artículo 44166

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