Memoir: Goodbye to Old Hat.
Photocopies of a two-part manuscript memoir by Vere White.
Part one deals with Vere White's transfer from the Royal Sussex Regiment into No 2 (Commando) Special Boat Section, describing his training in Scotland and Hampshire and his subsequent preparations at Dover for a limpet attack on a ship in Boulogne Harbour.
Part two describes White's part in HMS Walney and HMS Hartland's assault on Oran Harbour in Algeria on 8 Nov 1942.
Associated with World War Two (1939-1945).