Veteran’s diary written as teenage seaman recalls life in Arctic Convoys
The diary of a 17-year-old Navy seaman survived the Second World War – but the 100-year-old veteran who wrote it has told how he hoped it would be lost during Nazi raids on the Arctic Convoys.
Sir Thomas Baird joined the Navy in August 1941 in Plymouth, Devon, and his first impressions are recorded in a journal which midshipmen –
