A Formidable Hero; LT R.H. Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR

Toronto: CANAV Books [0-9690703-9-X] 1987, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 187pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Photographs, maps, apppendix, index. The dust jacket is faded, and there is a scar on the front endpaper from an address label that was removed. "A Formidable Hero is the long-awaited biography of Lieutenant R.H. 'Hammy' Gray, one of Canada's last war heroes. Here is the story of a young British Columbian who, along with several friends, joins the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. It is early in the war and he is flying with the Fleet Air Arm - just months earlier he had been a budding student at the University of British Columbia!". Biography of R.H. "Hammy" Gray. Book about Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. Locale: British Columbia-Canada. (Military--Canada, Aviation--Military, Biography, Fleet Air Arm, Military--Canada, World War 2, World War II).