Joined the Royal Naval Patrol Service in October 1940-First ship,as an asdic rating, H.M.S. Man 'o War,in the North Atlantic. Commisioned as a Midshipman RNVR mid 1941. Served in HMS Welshman until September 1942-minelaying and Malta ferry. Then HMS Sennen, North Atlantic thence to the Indian Ocean.Then to HMS Cumberland -invasion of Malaya, Singapore and Indonesia and back to UK. Training the Chinese navy in HMS Renown in Plymouth until invalided in 1947.
Medical School, 15 years or so in Fiji, Pharmaceutical industry until retirement in 1986. GP since.
If dates and age don't add-up I put my age up by 3 years and joined Man 'O War before my 16th birthday.