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U Boat surrender 10th May 1945

On VE Day, we, together with the rest of the 21st Escort Group, were ordered from Belfast to Loch Eriboll,...

The Invasion of Norway April 9th 1940

Within hours of the German entry, a contingent of Glasgow ships company were landed, carrying rifles and...

Royal Marine - Harry Sinclair

People and places in my story: Lympstone - Crete - Maldives - Ceylon - London Royal Marine Harry Sinclair....

Walkers Own - HMS Wren

We later returned to Gibraltar and then sailed back to England arriving in December 1943 where I left the...

Twenty Five years in the Royal Navy

I left Devonport after D-Day and went out on a ship called the Andes and sailed out to Simonstown and I...

H.M.S. Speedwell - A True Shaggy Dog Story

Jack was a very clean dog and would always manage to get to the upper deck for his toilet, however bad the...

One Man's War -Part 26: March 21, 1945 -- May 26, 1945 Part Four

It was by this time the end of our flight period and we were given a vector of 090 degrees to return...

WRENS life in Falmouth and Delhi

Chief ran to the Duty Officer, then came back to the Singal Office, looking ray and haggard... There were...

A WREN IN MALTA

In Ursula Stuart Mason's books, "The Wrens 1917-1977" and "Britannia's Daughters"...

With Churchill to the Quebec Conference 1943

I suppose that the most unusual thing was when I escorted Churchill to the 1943 Quebec Conference. We had...

Your story 'Life as a Wren' edited and categorised

As a qualified naval driver I was sent to Scotland to ferry Naval officers around in Largs, and...

The Sinking of HMS Hermes (continued)

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

Approach of the Storm - Part 41, Family at War (A School Project)

During World War II my granddad C.T. Goddard joined the Royal Navy with his brother H. Goddard whilst his...

Alongside Prince Philip

The First Lieutenant was Prince Philip of Greece who at that time was not yet engaged to HRH Princess...

Joining Up

At HMS Valkfire, the radar establishment in Douglas, Isle of Man, we had two weeks of intense theory of...

Jack Burgess’ Long Journey

We went across the South Atlantic to Durban in South Africa, up the Mozambique Channel to Suez through the...

War With Orwill

I was on H.M.S Orwell doing Russian convoys for the next two years. I finished up coming back to Hong Kong...

Events Abroad

Two of us from signals were chosen to become part of a 22 man crew for a major landing craft built at...

Omaha Beach

Petty Officer Jack Bacon was my father's supply officer, who after the war worked at the local Co-op...

A very narrow escape

The sound of the aircraft grew louder until I thought it was directly overhead and screwed up my shoulders...

Further Action

Like the second front at home, when Allied Forces sailed across the Channel to invade France, so another...

Raymond Wills Memories of the HMS Premier

I was then sent to a shore station in Greenock, Scotland to work on an escort carrier aboard HMS Premier....

The Sinking of HMS Hermes (continued)

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

Experiences of a server in the Royal Naval Patrol Service

I joined the Leicester Sea Cadet Corp a few years before the war... Each night we formed a defence line...

HMS Byron

In April 'Byron' was transferred to Nore Command where she was refitted to prepare her for North...

Pearl Harbour

That first weekend in December the U.S.S. aircraft carrier Wasp was moored off the dockyard and eight of...