When called up for National Service Gray volunteered to work as a pay clerk and was posted to Manchester, where he was able to climb with the Rock and Ice club members on a regular basis.
12.
After serving as a conscripted pay clerk in the Royal Air Force, Ferris worked on Swansea's evening newspaper before moving to London in 1953, where the magazine " Woman's Own " employed him to edit readers'letters and invent some of his own.
13.
On the 7th, Jenkins and Foley returned to " Amphitrite " and on the 8th, Jenkins returned to the lighthouse with Gunner Herbert Campbell and a relief party for half the men, who returned to the ship, including Ensign Bennett and Pay Clerk Cato.
14.
After 11 days of logistical challenges, the division, with 16, 000 Marines, departed Wellington in eighty-nine ships embarked for the Solomon Islands with a 60-day combat load which did not include tents, spare clothing or bed rolls, office equipment, unit muster rolls or pay clerks.
15.
She was named after John Gaynor Connolly, a Chief Pay Clerk, killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; launched on 15 January 1944 by Mare Island Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs . Mary Francis Connolly, commissioned on 8 July 1944, Lt . W . A . Collier in command, and reported to the Pacific Fleet.
