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After Ted Macey's death in 1982, his daughter Merry Swan decided to compile this fascinating book from her father's manuscript. She has added 13 short stories to the collection, based on events her father experienced.
Jack the Lad RN is a matelot's wit set in verse, odes and prose, with over 140 cartoons. This is an open illustration of the true spirit in the Royal Navy and beyond, never waning through ranks or years.
In Ted Macey's works you will discover humour and humility behind the history; making the best of a childhood despite being put in an orphanage, seeing the lighter side of life during WW2 despite being torpedoed and bombed, enjoying the dizzy heights of Physical Training Officer despite the looming prospect of being taken off the Active List and finally settling down to some schoolwork again despite being a teacher û an ordinary man with an ordinary life?
So here is a Royal Navy man's light-hearted lifetime collection of reminiscences; set in poetry, prose and cartoonsû1919 to 1982.
