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Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester

A Royal Navy officer turned his early wartime experiences into vivid memoirs that bring World War I at sea to life. His books have the immediacy of someone writing from inside the action, with the eye of both a sailor and a storyteller.

2 Audiobooks

From Snotty to Sub

From Snotty to Sub

by Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester

From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log

From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log

by Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester

About the author

Born in Kent in 1899, Wolstan Beaumont Charles Weld Forester served in the Royal Navy from a young age. Records linked to his military and family history place him in naval training before the First World War ended, and later identify him as a retired lieutenant-commander.

He is known for From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log, a firsthand account of his early naval service that was edited by E. L. Forester and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. He also wrote From Snotty to Sub, another memoir drawn from his time at sea.

Forester died in 1961. Although biographical information about him is fairly sparse online, the surviving books suggest a writer valued today for clear, direct recollections of naval life in the First World War.