The picture was taken by P. Le Q. Johnson, Chief Sparks. Peter was a quiet and unassuming guy and he never mentioned that during the war, after being torpedoed on the
Memnon and spending a couple of weeks in the boats, he joined the ill-fated
Criton in Freetown as part of the prize crew, and subsequently became, at 19, the youngest Senior British Officer in a French prison camp in West Africa.
Bernard de Neumann's article in the BBC WW2 People's War series tells the story at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/51/a8037551.shtml
His story of the Criton can be found at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c55517/
Here's a snap of Peter taking a picture of a passenger poodle:
