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By Order of the Commanding Officer

Italian and Sicilian males were excluded from the dance by order of the Commanding Officer. Outside, a...

His Majesty's Rescue Tug: Mr Bray

I viewed a documentary on Channel 4 concerning lease-lend ships built in USA by KHISER Shipyards and...

Memories of My Early Days

I was 17陆, living with my parents in Redhill near Reigate when war broke out working in a Steel Wool...

HMS Zulu at Tobruk

On the 17 June 1942, he was assigned to HMS Zulu based at Gibraltar. The date of the Certificate for Wounds...

Refits and Navy Life

The Ones That Got Away

It was 10am that morning, I was flying a Grumman Wildcat fighter from H.M.S Searcher, on a Combat Air...

D-Day and Boredom! A Sailor鈥檚 Story

Near to his ship was HMS Belfast and the Captain had just enough time to warn them that the barrage was...

The War of Two Sailors part two

January 1943 Harold was then sent from Portsmouth to join a transport liner 鈥淓mpress of Japan鈥�...

The War of Two Sailors part five

August 28th 1948 Twenty three year old Harold Ernest Williams married Marjorie Edna King on the day before...

Sinking of HM Minesweeper Ouse

The Sinking of the ' H.M. Minesweeper Ouse' Document M08044/41 Ouse sailed from Alexandria on...

Not Required for WW2: A Deputy in the Coal Mines

He was a member of the Scotswood rowing club, Single Scull i think he termed it, he was acepted with glee...

Convoys to Murmansk

They had the dive bombers on the Norwegian coast, and they had the submarine packs at the exit of the...

J D Dearden-War Time Memories

It was at Altrincham Grammar School; the Grammar School children did mornings and we did afternoons, this...

Fleet Air Arm in the Battle for Crete

Battle for Crete: Maleme airfield May 20,1941 Although the Fleet Air Arm airfield, with its aircraft and...

The 1939 Gold Rush

On Sunday 1st October 1939, H.M.S. Enterprise was lying at anchor at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands,...

War Memories of Frederick Oliver of Hull

War Memories of Frederick Oliver of Hull...

Human Flotsam

Icy water having quickly neutralised leg muscle tone, the only things sustaining blood pressure were...

VE Day in the Far East

The Petty Officers and Senior Petty Officers they could get spo because they were supposed to have the...

Operation Tiger at Slapton Sands 鈥� collecting the bodies

I was a signalman onboard a motor launch - the ML303 - stationed at Portland Harbour and early on the...

Saving an Island

Their destination was Soroy Island, where, for three months, the Norwegian islanders had been hiding from...

LCG&F Association

LCG 15 and 16 started from Belfast they ran into stormy weather and both sank off Milford Haven with the...

My Final Days on Board the Queen Elizabeth

After some dickering over which Midshipmen should go with her and which stay out in the war zone, four of...

My Grandfather's War Record

My grandfather, Daniel McMullan, served in the RNVR during the War... My great grandmother told me of how...

Imperial Airways & Naval Tour of Duty

Len Kitchen haslived in Hinckley for the past 25 years but during the war years he spent time in the South...

A Bristol Schoolboy's Contribution

While I was towing the drum the onshore crew was tracking me with some sort of Asdic device, since I could...

Flying a Corsair 1944: Lost Over Norway

In July 1941 at the age of 18 my uncle Eddie from Newry Co Down suddenly tranferred from medical school at...