Many thanks for your kind comments. I am now up to post #283 in this excellent thread.
Reg I can relate some more, but as mentioned my dad never spoke very much about his experiences, so it may be a little sketchy and lacking in detail. I will happily post more later if interested. He sadly departed us in 1990.
Reg it was amazing to read that the troop ship you departed on, the Britannic, was the very ship you watched depart from Liverpool on it's maiden voyage as a boy. As you say, 'who would have thought' just eight years later, you would be on it, going to train for war?
Little tingle on the spine reading that bit
Here's a handy link to the Britannic on Wikipedia btw:
RMS Britannic (1929) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
so we know where you were on 28 June 1930!