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Don鈥檛 look back - (Its not there any more) - Part 3

On board the small ship 鈥淭he Kedah鈥�, all had been involved with the same actions around the...

My Life My War - Chapter 7b

Ruth had made plans to visit all her relations in turn and she would hold my hand and say, 鈥淭his is...

Wartime Memories

Our only serious loss was the destroyer 鈥淗MS Matabele鈥�, she was hit by a torpedo fired from a...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 10

Heading them was the skipper, Jack Oakley, all of twenty-eight years old, and balding, seeming more or less...

The Old Dunstablian Who Never Became An Admiral

Finally reaching HMS Pembroke i.e. Chatham, the first sailors I met were the survivors from HMS Goodall...

Bill Sanderson's Wartime Experiences -Part 1 - Joining Up

Place of Birth: Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire Father: William Brown Sanderson Mother: Elizabeth...

Our Grandad William Derrick Gilding

The docks at Bone were about as big as Boston Dock, but it was packed with ships, both Merchant Navy and...

Corvette commander on North Atlantic anti submarine duty - part 4

"Whilst in command of HMS Kenilworth Castle the ship was attached to a group commanded by Commander D....

MY WAR 1939 - 1946

From when I joined Brigadier in Oct'43 until May 鈥�44 we were on landing exercises along the...

Joe's Fags Part 2

With trembling lip 鈥� not mentioning Joe's 鈥楩ags鈥� 鈥� I told a tear-jerking story...

My Life My War - Chapter 13d

On the special parade for the forgotten fleet, held in Portsmouth, all spick and span and standing with the...

A Marine's Tale Part 4

On one occasion we recovered a living being.He was an American pilot who came overhead in a very sick plane...

My Life My War - Chapter 10a

It was a heartening sound as the four inch anti aircraft guns on the deck above us carried out their...

Luxury Pad

The Kriegsmarine in Kiel faces square on to the port, and the view across the U-boat pens from the top...

Some Christmas's Remembered - 1942, 43, 44 and 45

Christmas 1943 out ship, a 10,000 ton merchantman named "The Empire Spartan" had come into London...

Tom's Story - Part 4

We sailed again, this time to join up with the American 7th Cruiser Squadron, but we never did get into...

War Diary of John Dolphin OCT 1943 - MAR 1945 on HMS QUEENBOROUGH

We now join up with the 4th Destroyer Flotilla in Harbour, after 2 days rest up we all 8 Fleet Destroyers...

My Life My War - Chapter 2a

I had already stated that the squad as a whole had decided that we could no longer put up with the...

Fall of Singapore

The Australians from the 8th Army were coming home in droves aboard the Queen Mary, the authorities were...

Lucky 157- Coastal Forces

Unbeknown to us at that time the following day, David Niven and two ... lorry loads of troops arrived and...

William Gillan COPRA

We were allowed out at night, one night a chap called Robert Miller a Joiner from Greenock, told us he...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 6

Within a day, all the officers forming X-craft crews, both passage and action, were summoned to the...

HMS Whelp: Memories of a Young Stoker. Part 6

Climbing down from the lorry gathering my hammock and kitbag noticed the nearest destroyer was named...

My War Time Experiences

One night a German bomber returning to Germany dropped seven bombs, five on the St. Michael's school...

D-Day: Royal Navy Landing Craft

After initial training, we were drafted into 鈥渃ombined operations鈥� ie co-operation with Army...

What my Dad Did for Us in the War

This was followed shortly afterwards by an attack on the carrier by a single Japanese bomber, which...