Early 1939 saw a world already in turmoil and Great Britain enter deeper into a period of momentous political upheaval and decision-making around the growing threat of a second World War. That said, daily life went on, and so it was for a nineteen-year-old Perthshire lad, son of the local headmaster and one of four siblings, who had just graduated from Dundee's Wireless College and was embarking on a career as a Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy...