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Belvederians who died in The Second World War 1939-1945 (14)

Colm Nolan was the son of John James Nolan and Teresa Nolan. Colm Nolan's obituary in the Belvederian...

MAIL

First it was Oro Bay then onto Hollandia, Finchaven, Game a Do Do, then down to Milne Bay where we dropped...

D-Day Memories

Mr L Isaacs of Hanford, Stoke On Trent Ex Able-Seaman Landing Craft Tank, 954-44 flotilla. On the return to...

My War Onboard - by James Wilson

I joined a tribal class destroyer called the Maori 鈥� part of the 4th destroyer artilla... We took...

Life On The Rock

Two trawlers, sister ships, The Lord Hogarth and the Lady Hotham had been used to patrol the Straits Of...

Service on HMS Scylla

In November 1942 I finished my training and set off from Portsmouth to Scapa Flow where I boarded HMS...

Harry Lidstone Lugg

By 1939, when war was declared, Harry was promoted to Petty Officer and assigned to the cruiser, HMS...

The Quiet Commando

The original intention was for the first flight of assault troop consisting of the 8th Infantry Brigade to...

Letter from the Plinlimmon

The following is a transcription of My great grandfathers experiences aboard the HMS Plinlimmon during...

The Depot Ship

Digging latrines by day, and being shelled with anti-personal missiles by night didn't seem to be a...

Memories of Service in the Royal Navy

I was kitted out with civilian clothing and a travel warrant to get me home to Barnsley, so ending my...

Sinking of the Duchess of Atholl 10th October 1942

My father, John Trevor Liney, was the telegraphist covering the 鈥淒istress鈥� frequency at the...

Troopship #3

On a trip to Holland on a freighter with passenger accomodation- a wonderull way to travel as many ports on...

H.M.S. Faulknor

My dad, Denis Rymer joined the Destroyer H.M S Faulknor on Christmas Eve, 1942 as a young seaman Stoker......

Serving on the South Atlantic Convoys

In 1942 I joined the crew of the corvette HMS Woodruff at Falmouth where she was being refitted out. In the...

The Japs after VJ Day

But still, the Japanese were really, really cruel... The Japanese were really, really cruel....

Coastal Forces Rescue At Sea

In late May/early June 1942, four boats from a flotilla of C class Motor Gun Boats stationed at Great...

A not so 鈥淭all鈥� short story, 鈥淓ngland Expects鈥�

I was a Petty Officer at the time, and therefore in the Chief and Petty Officer's mess... The Chief...

Starting out

Alan said to Geoffrey, "I bet I shall be an officer before you are", which seemed very likely as...

The Fleet Air Arm 1939-45 [cont'd]

He took over as Governor, then Indomitable sailed off to other climes leaving Vengeance to take control of...

Royal Navy Stoker

This was in February 1941, well this is just a small part of my service, I served in the Indian Ocean, was...

U-Boats - The Hunter Hunted!

Rescued in a rowing boat and landed in North Africa my sister met and married a major in India with flowers...

Drama on the High Seas

For 22 days the destroyer had towed the torpedoed oil tanker the Regent Lion across 700 miles of Atlantic...

D-Day June 6th 1944: A Sailor on LCG 3

April 1944 OA3 Base - Royal Navy Ordnance Workshop 101 Shed Terminal, Southampton Docks. I found myself...

Joan Dickinson's War

There were anti aircraft guns in Hyde Park and bombing every night. We had a great time when we were off...

MTB695 by Leslie J. Sprigg, Ex Leading Telegraphist

Then a convoy was seen approaching and the SO took us up the shore side and all boats attacked with...