More Lives Than a Ship’s Cat: The Most Highly Decorated Midshipman 1939–1945 Clothing During the last four years

During the last four years of the Second World War

Author: Richard Woodman

The Battle of Stalingrad was hanging in the balance

000 ton freighter was equal to a land battle in terms of destruction

competing operational priorities

More Lives Than a Ship’s Cat: The Most Highly Decorated Midshipman 1939–1945 Clothing During the last four yearsBy any standards Mick Stokes experiences in the Royal Navy during the Second World War were remarkable. Aged nineteen, he was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his courage during incessant bombing during the Siege of Tobruk. He survived multiple torpedo attacks, firstly serving on the cruiser Glasgow, which was hit twice; on the battleship Queen Elizabeth at sea and blown up by human torpedoes at Alexandria; and