My brother Derek recollected some exploits of the RN Commandos, whilst staying with us on leave. The whole...
One week after D-Day, Emil was sent to the Channel Islands where they lived on board their boat and carried...
In 1944 I was Chief Petty Officer aboard H.M.S. Zealous, a destroyer escorting the Russian Convoys; i.e. we...
Terrapin fired her three stern torpedoes. The original intention had been to lie on the bottom of the...
The slight amount of diving practice to which until then X-craft crews had been exposed did not give them...
Some months later, back in the U.K. the Squadron was detailed to carry out its first deck landings on an...
In June 1944 my ship - HMS "Pearl", 600-ton Asdic Trawler of the Royal Naval Patrol Service - was...
The following was written by my grandfather Leslie Dennis Rudge in 1985 for my sister, Samantha Durose, who...
6th June Wave after wave of fighters flew over the ship this morning.This is D.Day,we leave at 11 am.pass...
Once they had been loaded into the waiting ambulances we were sent straight back to our D-Day station...
With others, escorts we kept them at bay from the convoys over 12 months glad to say we never lost any...
Our objective on D Day was the Monville Batteries, a back up in case the Airborne didn't do the job. We...
While rescuing seamen from HMS Laurentic also an armed merchant cruiser which had been torpedoed and was...
There was one time we were supposed to be loading a Japanese ship with rice, and we used to have Gunga Dins...
Two girls, Evelyn and Olwen and five boys, Tom, Fred, Ivor, Bill and Glyn. Four of us boys played brass...
The wedding was planned for Monday April 27th 1942 and the previous Tuesday, call up papers arrived for me...
I was in Burma when the Japanese, the British prisoners of the Japanese were released, and a lot of them...
German submarines penetrated Scapa Flow and sank ‘The Iron Duke’ at The Royal Oak on the 14th...
Dad was transferred to Trapani in Sicily and then onto a prison camp just outside Rome and finally to a...
For a week or two the weather was not suitable and I was beginning to realise that we were getting very...
I got to London Liverpool Street, and wandered around with no idea how to get to London Bridge Station. I...
The next ten weeks or so we spent working out of Rosyth or Scapa Flow on Northern Patrols and North Sea...
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