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War Diary of John Dolphin April 1945 - April 1946 on HMS QUEENBOROUGH

The 鈥楬EAVIES were right in there Bombarding Jap Airfields on 鈥淔ORMOSA鈥� while 8 Destroyers...

Charioteer Mark One - 5

This meant that the five-foot long warhead that fitted on to the nose of the chariot hadn't been joined...

H.M.S.Kelantan and Convoy S.L.125

We were ordered to go to England and the Chinese and Malayan crewmen were replaced with an English crew. At...

My Life in the Royal Navy

We assembled in the drill shed and were told by the drafting officer we were going to Dundee in Scotland to...

Minesweeping in the Royal Navy

There I was interviewed and I passed the interview board and was appointed to the naval RNVR Officers...

My Life My War - Chapter 2b

As time passed by, the various members of the squad had sorted themselves out with their obvious likes and...

My Life My War - Chapter 3b

Starting at the smaller four inch anti aircraft gun and its ammunition we progressed to the six-inch breech...

Life in the Royal Navy 1940 to 1946 by Tom Brown

An account of life in the Royal Navy in Combined Operations Branch 1940 鈥� 1946 I served in LCMs for 4...

Life After ..... The Midget Sub

We were steaming in line ahead for the first hundred miles or so on our return to Colombo harbour, HMS...

60 Years Ago on Friday June 2nd LCI(S) 536 202 Flotilla

Sunday 4th June Started the day as normal, tied up in midstream in the river Hamble just off the village of...

My Life My War - Chapter 12c

On the 17th of July the Warspite received orders that in company with HMS Valiant, they were to bombard to...

The Last to Know

HMS 鈥淒auntless鈥� was an old cruiser which had been spared from the breaker's yard to provide...

Where are they now: HMS Fernie at Cherbourg 1940

In the middle of June we were ordered into Cherbourg to pick up stragglers, the main evacuation from...

To and at Gibralter 42/43

This story records some of my recollections during WW2 I was at HMS Osprey the anti-submarine School at...

A W Howorths Revised D-Day

The gunnery officer told me that I would man an Oerlicon on one of the Landing Craft Assault Boat that we...

ML108 by Leslie J. Sprigg, Ex Leading Telegraphist

Now ready for battle; I was posted to HMS Wasp at Dover and my first boat ML108. We were taken in tow...

HMS Barham - With Force "H": Part 1

Following a two-month spell at Scapa Flow during the summer of 1940, HMS Barham sailed to Freetown, Sierra...

The War Away From the Homefront-A Personal Account

With only rough directions as to how to get to Vavuniya, a British base in North Ceylon, his squadron were...

HMS Whelp: Memories of a Young Stoker. Part 7

Back to Sydney, which we left on The 31st July, and it was rumoured that it was for "a secret job"....

FEPOW - the Story of William Nicholls

Drafted to HMS Dragonfly, a Yangtze river Gunboat, in which I served until April 27th 1941 when I was...

Working with the German Navy (Part 3 of 3)

However it was a rule that the German officers had to salute the British officers. I was horrified one day...

HMS Barham - Eastern Mediterranean Fleet, 1940: Part 4

Notes: (1) Surgeon-Captain Gleeson, RN 鈥� Senior Medical Officer in Eastern Mediterranean (2) On...

S.S/H.M.S CAPE HOWE/ (SSV) Prunella.Casualties of 21st June 1940. From the Data base of The Common Wealth Graves Commision.

Son of Fied George and hannah Ann Howell, of Norwich; husband of Ivy Hilda Howell, of Norwich, of Norwich...

My Life My War - Chapter 5a

In one state of emergency, I was a gun captain and breech worker on a starboard six-inch gun, in another I...

The Sinking of HMS Edinburgh

I learnt after that he had taken passages on HMS Niger which ran into our own minefield off Iceland and...

Russian and Malta Convoy Part 2

In May 1941, HMS Nigeria escorted the 'pride of the Navy' - HMS HOOD - out of Scapa Flow into the...