Books by Lieutenant-Commander Lawrie Phillips

LiLawrie Phillips was born and bred in Pembroke Dock and trained a reporter on The Western Telegraph before moving to London. He spent 35 years as a media specialist with the Ministry of Defence working with all three Armed Services at home and abroad. He has been the Royal Navy's Fleet PR Officer, the Head of Media Operations at the Permanent Joint HQ, Director of Public Relations for the British Forces in the Far East and Head of Publicity at the Ministry of Defence. Naval history has been a life-long passion. He is author of The Royal Navy Day by Day, published by The History Press, which is considered by the Navy's professional journal as 'probably one of the most well-thumbed and valued books Captains of Her Majesty's Ships possess'. Lawrie Phillips is a former lieutenant-commander RNR and lieutenant-colonel Royal Engineers V). He is a vice-president of the Navy Records Society and of the Society for Nautical Research.