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HMS Hardy - Part 2 - The Lost Organ

Our Skipper, Captain Warburton-Lee was a real task master, intent on maximum efficiency and many times I...

HMS Formidable

Then the two Flight Directional officers would then talk to the pilots - who were already airborne - and...

The Small Vessels Pool

Most of the volunteers were like dad, disabled or retired and were given the job of bringing new vessels...

Sinking the Bismarck

Then the Sheffield, with Ark Royal and HMS Renown, joined Force H at Gibraltar... We had to come up from...

Minesweeping in The Thames

The lady of the house had two children and she used to go every night, an hour before dark, with her kids,...

D-Day

D Day Landings Gold Beach D Field C/JX319894 H.M.S. Eglinton. I had joined my ship H.M.S. Eglinton a Hunt...

H.M.S. Speedwell - June 1944

Off Portsmouth on the Wednesday morning 7th and turned round without going in and went back towards France...

Jim's Story

One incident in the Atlantic does however remain with me, for I sighted a Torpedo advancing towards my ship...

Prelude to D-Day

What follows is an extract from a letter written by Lieutenant George Criddle R.N., serving in HMS...

鈥淭he Tirpitz and Other Stories鈥�

I had to report to a Royal Artillery Depot on Blackheath SE3 where I became a gunner on the Rocket Guns. No...

The Fall of Singapore

We put to sea again, but picked up about 87 Japanese bombers, torpedo bombers and dive bombers, I mean...

Wullie's War

After camp at Wales I applied to join the Navy going to Glasgow and passing maths and English and medical...

The Lock Gates at Ouistreham

Ouistreham is the town on the north-west coast of France where the canal from Caen comes in to the sea, so...

Minesweeping Around Burma

We were there to pick up a Jap officer and NCO to show us where the minefields were ready for landing the...

鈥淪ome Fleet Air Arm Memories鈥�

During a training air-gunnery flight, in a Fairey Swordfish, which was an open cockpit aircraft, as the two...

D-Day Telegram

Meanwhile Mum was at home with My Brother and myself like most wives, and had not heard from Dad for...

A swimming Hero

We were visiting my Grandad and Grandma Birch at Hall Street Alvaston Derby, my Uncle Stanley was there on...

The Journey of War

Geoff remembers swimming between 7.30pm - 12.00am before he was picked up by HMS Kingston which was a K...

Fleet Air Arm, Malta 1943

Ted Grindrod, my pilot, trained together at Machrihanish and remained together for our entire 9 month...

HMS Barham - Scapa Flow: August 27th, 1940

Before joining Vice Admiral Somerville's 鈥淗鈥� Force in the Western Mediterranean in late...

J Armitage-Landing Craft Tank Experiences

After initial training at H.M.S."GANGES" at Shotley in Suffolk.Then, extra courses of balloon...

Rags to Praise

Richard Scott whilst a boiler stoker at the Newcastle Main Post Office had gone to night classes and...

A COLD WINTER WITH FROSTBITE

We had the coldest winter recorded for many year, it was so cold some of the Airmen fitters, ringers,...

Belvederians who died in The Second World War 1939-1945 (3)

Frank Stenson Commodore, Captain of a merchant navy ship Died December 1940. Frank Stenson was enrolled in...

My Parents' and My Memories of the War

He fought in France, North Africa, Italy and the Far East, Singapore, Malaya, Rangoon, Bombay. In Burma he...

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 7: David and the Greek Prince - 1944

Not long before D-Day I was in Torquay doing a course in Domestic Science when I heard from my brother...