Alexander Fullerton

Alexander Fullerton (19242008) was a British author of naval and other fiction. Born in 1924 in Suffolk and brought up in France, he was a cadet during the years 1938–1941 at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from the age of thirteen. He went to sea serving first in the battleship ''Queen Elizabeth'' in the Mediterranean, and spent the rest of the war at sea – mostly under it, in submarines. He served as gunnery and torpedo officer of HM Submarine ''Seadog'' in the Far East, 1944–1945, in which capacity he was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service. Provided by Wikipedia