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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449028 ''The Devils Wind''] by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449028 Archive.org mirror version]. An account of the actions of the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Shannon,which participated in the Relief of Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 told through the eyes of a very young sailor.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author had served in this period on ''HMS Scarab'' a river gunboat.
: Note, this may appears to be the American title. Appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe, first published 1936. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16238?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Naval Odyssey''] by Thomas Woodrooffe 1938, first published c 1936. HathiTrust Digital Library. Toby Warren, on the (fictitious) British cruiser HMS "Cassiopeia", participates in the events in Turkey during the 1920s, and the Royal Navy's involvement in the crises there. A publisher's note about the book and the author, says. "After the war he saw service …in the Mediterranean…is thus eminently qualified to write a book about things actually seen and experienced while in the Navy".<ref>[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19360427-1.2.78?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article "Publisher's Note " [about ''Naval Odyssey''<nowiki>]</nowiki>] ''Morning Tribune'', 27 April 1936, Page 15. nlb.gov.sg. </ref>:The Thomas Bovius Ralph author Woodrooffe was in the Royal Navy from 1917 and became Lieutenant-Commander in 1929, retired/was dismissed in 1933 and then served in WW2. ''In Good Company'', published 1947 is a memoir about his WW2 serviceas a Naval Observer. His navy service is [http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersW5.html here] scroll down to his entry. unithistories.com
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