More Lives Than a Ship’s Cat: The Most Highly Decorated Midshipman 1939–1945 mug food was scarce and the

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Author: Eric Dietrich-Berryman

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More Lives Than a Ship’s Cat: The Most Highly Decorated Midshipman 1939–1945 mug food was scarce and theBy 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