Thomas Nice had really always wanted to join the Navy, but this was not to be, so he joined the Royal Artillery and was placed on board ships as a Gunner on a DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship). He was torpedoed twice, once in The Wash by a German U-Boat and the second time in the Indian Ocean. He was three weeks adrift, then picked up and taken to Durban in South Africa. He then went back to Liverpool and couldn't get into port because of the fog.
Then he joined the Commandos and trained at Achnacarry near Spean Bridge near Fort William.
He then found himself selected for service in Burma with the Chindits and Major Wingate.
