Rev. William Smith

William Smith is an Open University Honours Graduate and retired Civil Servant with forty-two years' experience in Royal Naval, Joint Service and NATO logistics. He was seconded for four years to the US Navy liaising on Royal Naval weapon procurement programmes. He also attended the NATO Defence College in Rome. Encouraged by his maternal grandfather's Royal Navy service during the Great War and his father's Second World War Merchant Navy experiences, for which he was decorated, Bill decided to...See more

William Smith is an Open University Honours Graduate and retired Civil Servant with forty-two years' experience in Royal Naval, Joint Service and NATO logistics. He was seconded for four years to the US Navy liaising on Royal Naval weapon procurement programmes. He also attended the NATO Defence College in Rome. Encouraged by his maternal grandfather's Royal Navy service during the Great War and his father's Second World War Merchant Navy experiences, for which he was decorated, Bill decided to research naval history during his retirement. This book is the result of his particular focus on the Atlantic and Arctic Theatres during the latter conflict. His Churchill's Arctic Convoys was published by P&S in 2022. He and his wife Valerie, who have a son, a daughter and three granddaughters, live in Wiltshire. See less