 A shy and lonely young man, in peacetime he had been an industrial chemist and feels particularly bitter about the war, having been forced to have his dog put down when he joined up for naval officer training.He keeps a rabbit in the net defence store at Dartmouth which is also killed in a German air-raid.As the story unfolds, he falls in love with "Wren" Barbara Wright, who drives a navy van for the crew of Genevieve.