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Memoirs of Lieutenant IGN Lindsay 1939-1940

It seems he was either 1 of the 2 silhouettes shown on the well-known bit of footage of a boat approaching...

HMS Whelp: Memories of a Young Stoker. Part 1

I use the word offices lightly because it was two small rooms over a sports goods shop owned by the famous...

H.M.S. Royal Arthur. The Reception on Joining the Royal Navy at Skegness.

When the railway was built Newchurch was on top of a hill half a mile away so the station was built in...

Don’t look back - (Its not there any more) - Part 1

This wireless was on for the whole of the four hour journey, and one of the songs was the Andrews Sisters...

Charioteer Mark One - 6

For the French channel ports and similar harbours within range of coastal forces such as MTBs or MGBs it...

HMS Kingston

In operations to transport troops to relieve the 18th Australian Infantry Brigade at Tobruk in August, the...

The Sixtieth Anniversary of D-Day: Memories of Landing Craft

Many of the landing craft on display are anachronistic, the one Churchill tank, poised in isolation on its...

My Life My War - Chapter 3a

Our instructor called us to attention and addressed us in a very low tone, “In one minute from now...

HMS Barham - Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, 1940: Part 5

Much time spent ashore in Alexandria and worrying about mail and family back in England. The sea mail may...

HMS Barham - Churchill's Inspiration

There is something of the boy in Winston Churchill; he loves to tease and anger his opponents; one can...

Life on board the HMS WOLF

We were fighting the Germans all the time and then I was sent onboard the HMS Wolf as part of the Northern...

Wartime Memories 1940 - 1946 (Continued)

I must have fallen asleep straight away, as in what only seemed minutes, there was the Petty Officer coming...

My Uncle Jim and the Invasion of North Africa

Having completed these as well as a commando type course, I was given promotion and, instead of returning...

Prisoner of War

We were on Crete for quite a while before the Germans moved us, then we went to Greece and were there for...

In Shore Minesweeping

I joined BYMS 2049 in Halifax for the trip over to Dover and by that time I had got my sea legs...

Charioteer Mark One - 1

Naturally the older hands from the first batch, such as Strugnell and Eldridge and Ede, were around to give...

A Journey Through War: Royal Marine Commandos

PREPARING FOR D-DAY The Mobile Base Defence Organisation provided gunners for three Batteries of 2.pounder...

Memories of a Lovely Lady

This was the first use of the new German radio controlled bomb and with hits on one battleship and one...

A Slice of Autobiography (1939 to 1946) — Part 5

Turnkey hamstrung". Not long afterwards: "Turnkey staggered". I think someone on the Bridge...

Sinking of the Bismarck

Rodney turned away and came round to the Southward of the enemy, closing in as time went on to 1500 yards...

Joining the War Effort at 14!!

All the platoon went into Arley Woods trapping rabbits to add to the pot, and the two youngest members were...

Don’t look back - (Its not there any more) - Part 2

They were fighter planes, Zeros, and they were homing in on us, but our fighters from the aircraft carrier...

War Year Memoirs -Part 4

A group of us were standing by the Starboard Depth charge thrower and looking down saw a young seaman...

Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1948. Episode 1

About the middle of September, with Commander Bull, R.N. who had been appointed by the Admiralty as chief...

Life in the Services 1939-46, Chapter 2

After many visits to the Royal Marine Sergeant at the local recruiting office, he reluctantly agreed to...

Charioteer Mark One - 7

The darkness underwater at attack depth was so great that it was almost impossible to be sure when you were...