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| Wally Shaw |
Chris Shaw recording his father’s memories
of WWII.
Hard copy: $A15.00 E-book: $5.95
Printed by FC Productions, Sydney. www.fcproductions.com.au
Paperback 41 pp with colour plates
War/Military/Navy/History/Autobiography
ISBN: 9780987398611
William Shaw, a Chief Armourer, was involved
in the gun trials prior to the commissioning of HMS Warspite in 1915.
Wally Shaw, his son, served on the Warspite
in 1940-42 in the Mediterranean under Admiral Cunningham.
In 1992, Wally attended a Memorial Service
for all the crew who had ever served on board HMS Warpite in her long, active and
successful career. At that event, CPO ‘Jeff’ Barker, Secretary of the Warspite
Association, asked the remaining crew to document their experiences aboard the
‘Grand Old Lady’ as she was affectionately known.
This book is the report that Wally wrote of
his two-year’s service, some 50 years after the event!
Wally’s son, Chris Shaw, re-discovered this
report in 2012, and rather than have it lost to history, decided to turn it in
to a book.
A framed print by Derek Shapiro, given to
Wally by Chris, which also adorns the front cover, was, on Wally’s passing,
given to Shean Shaw, Chris’s son, together with William’s, and Wally’s medals.
This, then, completes four generations of
the Shaw family’s links with the battleship, HMS Warspite.
RIP.
HMS Warspite, and all who sailed in her.
Chris Shaw is
a retired pharmacist, born in Felixstowe, Suffolk. He worked in the Caribbean
for seven years before emigrating to Cairns, Queensland, Australia, where he’s
been for forty years. His only connection with the sea, apart from a love of
fishing, is that he once sunk a boat, many miles away from civilisation:
something that none of his forbears have achieved. Full author profile at: www.bookcreatorcircle.com.au
Hard copy and e-book available from: www.writersandebooks.com.au
for single copies or bulk orders.
Also from Collins Booksellers,
Smithfield, Q. 4878.
E-mail: smithfield@collinsbooks.com.au and
