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Lancashire to Washington DC part 5

Left Montreal 9.30 for New York, arriving midnight, parted company with Mrs. Hawkeswood, Mrs. McKinsey and...

A Lucky Escape

After training I proceeded to Porstmouth barracks where I was told that I would be joining the Australian...

Lost at Sea

Dave Castle- Lost at Sea. When I reached the gun deck, Dave Castle was sitting on the seat behind the gun...

D-Day 1944

My name is Derek Hogg, I was 14 Years of age and a member of Mitcham Sea Cadet Corps and on a...

The Quiet Man

One of his medals is the Atlantic Star... I don't think he was at the D-Day landings, but his medals...

Desertion in the Face of the Enemy

Officers and ratings witnessed the Captain tell the prisoner that he was charged with 鈥淒esertion in...

My Father's War: Onboard HMS Warspite, HMS Eridge and HMS Aldenham

My father, Charlton Everard Thompson, passed away prior to Christmas 2003 at 83 years of age... Two of the...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Burma

I was in a convoy, I was on a Smilax, which was escorting 13 minesweepers to Burma. Suddenly I looked on...

The Sinking of HMS Hermes

Stan Curtis Medals Awarded 1939 - 45 Star, Atlantic Star, African Star, Italian Star,Burma Star, Victory...

Two Sisters Reminisce

He sent a reply that there was no need to apologise as "like the vicar who was given a cherry brandy,...

'The Forgotten Dead' : A Tragedy off the Devon Sands

The flotilla was assigned to the American Fourth Army in Devon, where they trained for the D-Day landings...

My service in the Royal Navy by Philip Burgess

HMS Eagle", an aircraft carrier sunk, "HMS Manchester" sunk, "The Indomitable" an...

Preparation for D-Day: With an LCT Flotilla

The beach heads by this time were being shelled by Capital ships and what sticks in my memory as our...

Growing up in The Royal Navy

We went in on the inland sea and realised afterwards that we were used as guinea pigs to test whether the...

Ship Hit Mine and then it Sank in just 11 Minutes

In February 1941 I was sent to join the HMS Sindonis at Alexandria, in Egypt, which served during the...

At War on a Minesweeper

Here we joined a boat at night and sailed round Spain for Gibraltar. We had been minesweeping, and one had...

Sink the Haguro

This action was the last major Naval action of the second world war, often called the forgotten fleet as...

My First Ship

And then it eventually finished with FDR coming, Churchill first of all went to see President Roosevelt,...

A Coder's Story HMS Melbreak

We were based in Plymouth from February 1944 and did nightly patrols near the French Channel Ports... We...

HMS Liberty and Post-War Service

Fire and Water

Some of us were selected to be trained as crew for D.E.M.S.. There were many merchant ships at that time...

An Incredible Coincidence: Essex Lads in Cape Town

Not only were they Essex lads but lads that I had gone to school with, coming from Burnham and...

Operations against the Japanese aboard the Queen Elizabeth

We bombarded Sabang which is an island off the northern tip of Sumatra, in the province of Aceh, on 11...

Lancashire to Washington DC part 4

Transferred to Washington, British Admiralty Maintenance & Supply Representative's Signal...

Doodlebugs: Royal Navy at Dover

The most scary moment for me was, one night out on patrol in the M.T.B. to see the flare of a...

Memories of the Services during the War

I was originally from Lanark in Scotland so it was a big move to go to Chatam, thr first time I had...