UNDER THE WHITE ENSIGN, memoirs of his Second World War service with the Royal Navy

168pp., illus., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2013

Ray Dickin was born in Queenstown in 1923. As a seventeen-year-old cadet at the "General Botha" South Africa Nautical College he was drafted to HMS Dorsetshire. Later, as a sub-lieutenant and then lieutenant serving in destroyers and corvettes, he experienced action at sea in the Aegean and Mediterranean.