John Graham Bower

Born on February 6, 1886, John Graham Bower was a Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of commander and was awarded the D.S.O. He served in the submarine service and later drew on that experience in his writing, which gives his work an unusual sense of authority and detail.

He is best known for The Story of Our Submarines (1919), an account of British submarines in the First World War written with Admiralty permission, and for On Patrol. His books sit between history, memoir, and naval storytelling, making them especially appealing to readers interested in the human side of war at sea.

Bower died on October 15, 1940. Some sources also note that he later married the children's writer Barbara Euphan Todd, and that he wrote fiction and essays under the pseudonym "Klaxon."