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Experiences of WW2 in Devon and Cornwall

Before that event we spent about a year enduring nightly airraids on the nearby Plymouth dockyard.We used...

Surving the Sinking of the Barham

My Dad was 1 of only 398 men to survive this tragic event. this story was pieced together from the snippets...

A Horrible Thing to Have to Do

My Grandad, Roderick McIntosh, arrived at the coast of Normandy 4 hours after the first landings... His...

Royal Navy helped out US. Navy in 1942/3

The US Navy had lost 4 of it`s aircraft carriers and only had the SARATOGA based in Noumea.On the...

A true tale from HMS Belfast

I left school when I was 14 years old and by the end of 1940 I was training to be a boy...

HMS Pembroke and HMS Eland - Freetown (Sierra Leone)

HMS Pembroke and HMS Eland - Freetown. He spent 2 years in Sierra Leone serving on the HMS Pembroke and HMS...

The Day My Dad Got Torpedoed - On HMS 'Foresight'

The ship was HMS Foresight. I know he spent a few hours in the water before being rescued, and was injured...

SS to HMS

My father, Sidney Toone joined the Royal Navy in 1940, and after initial training at HMS Ganges, HMS Drake,...

Safe

If it wasnt for my grandads friend bertty i won't be here and won't be telling u this story. you...

Supporting Operations Neptune and Turnabout

I took shorthand for the shipyard Controller involved with preparations for operation Neptune and...

Uncle Bobby

My mother was working in service in Kingswood Warren and her eldest brother, Bobby Elliott from Blackhall,...

HMS Hood 1939

I was a nurse on leave from my hospital - Alloa and I had gone home to Port Glasgow to stay with...

The Survivors

One Survivor, Jim Kane, quoted "It was while we were sleeping that we were hit by a torpedo... HMS...

Grandad's Story

My grandad Cormell was on the King George V when it fired on the Bismarck, he told us that the tiles fell...

My Family

This picture was taken when Alan Woodward was on leave from the Royal Navy in 1942. His wife Irene is...

HMS King George V leaves Colombo Harbour

Boscombe Snippets [R.Sanders & E.Sired]

Edwin went to school at Walton on the Naze.His father was a coast guard on the east coast. edwin went into...

Rear Admiral 'Geordie' Leslie

He was a Rear Admiral called Geordie Leslie. On December 11th 1944 he was aged 24, and in command of HMS...

A Brave Bootneck

Jim was among 34 small assault boats, 544/56 Assault Unit Royal Maines... His good buddy Hookey Walker was...

HMS Goodall

Lieutenant Commander James Vandalle Fulton of the RNVR served on the HMS Goodall on convoy escort duty at...

SS Ranger & the raising of the Thetis

My father,W.J.Thomas worked on the salvage ship,ss Ranger & the raising of the ill-fated Thetis must...

Test the Guns!

HMS Ceylon was being used as an ack-ack cruiser to escort other ships in convoy. On her return voyage, not...

The Raft & 5 Days Leave Again

He was on the HMS Valiant Battleship ,8 days out of Cape Town when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a...

Did you serve with my Dad?

My father was in one of the decoy corvettes, at Omaha beach... He was in the bowels of the ship, steering,...

Underpants

I was in the bathroom clad in my underpantsscrubbing a hammock when the sliding door opened and there stood...

Serving at Sea

I Served on several ships, the Kelly a destroyer and the Norfolk a cruiser. On the Norfolk we were trying...