William Thomas Webb in the submarine service

<p dir="ltr">William was born on 20th September 1918 in Coventry. His mother died in 1930, and he was then sent to the Watts Naval Training School in East Dereham, Norfolk, a Barnardo's home run by the Royal Navy along the lines of a ship.</p><p>William joined the British submarine service in 1940. He patrolled the German coast and escorted Arctic convoys to Russia. He served on the HHMS Pipinos, a Greek submarine, in 1943. He was interested in French and wanted to be stationed on a French ship but was sent to a Greek one. He wrote down his experiences serving with the Greeks in a book; he was witness to the opening stages of the Greek Civil War.</p><p>It was when joining the Greek submarine in Barrow in 1943 that he met Sheila.</p>