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merchant navy

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merchant navy, marine
the ships or crew engaged in a nation's commercial shipping
www.mna.org.uk


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After studying drawing and painting at school and serving a stint in the British Merchant Navy in World War II, he had his first solo exhibition in 1944.
It was thought he had been in the Merchant Navy and that when his ship sunk, he had suffered brain damage and memory loss.
He left home at the age of 15, went to Halifax, Nova Scotia and joined the Merchant Navy, then sailed the Atlantic for about a year and a half in convoy.
 
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