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Memories of a C.W. Candidate Part Three - P.Q.18/Q.P.18 and the loss of H.M.S. Somali

Memories of a C.W. Candidate Part Three — P.Q.18/Q.P.18 and the loss of H.M.S. Somali....

In The Merchant Navy - The forgotten heroes

John was on PQ16, attacked by bombers on the way to Russia. If we hadn't got food to Britain and ammo...

Your story - Six Years in the Marines - edited and categorised

We were told to abandon our guns and head to the mountains to await a signal from the cruiser...

Precious Atlantic Cargo

The war of the North Atlantic had passed through the years when German U-Boats could pick off Allied cargo...

4.1/2 years on a Flower Class Corvette

Then was off on a convoy to West Africa to join HMS Starwort - a Flower Class Corvette, where I served...

Home and Away

A harbour training ship for young officers was required for up-grading to a battle ship for immediate...

HMS Bellona D-Day

Royal Marines at War

We patrolled Colombo as Redcaps and patrolled by motor cycle and sidecar to and from Colombo and Kandy,...

Battle of the River Plate, December 1939

On 16 January 1939, we commissioned HMS AJAX for a stint of two and a half years on the South Atlantic...

DISCOVERING OLD AND NEW FRIENDS

Aiken had requested that he go ashore with Len & I when we reached Londonderry, and as one did not want...

One Man's War -Part 32: July 24, 1945 -- December 15, 1945 Final Days Of The War!

While I was over seas, she and three of her girl friend nurses had joined the Army Nurse Corps and were...

A Silent Pal

On completion of our training we all joined a new, flat-bottomed Landing Craft Flack... For the rest of my...

Bill Evan's Story

We would go Nova Scotia first, then to New York, the rest of the convoy was loaded there, when we came out...

A busy life as a Royal Navy signalman

In March 1938 I left for China to join HMS Duncan as Flotilla Leader. There were four Destroyers as...

Trip to the USA interrupted by the War!

Miss Joyce travelled from New York on the U.S. liner Manhattan. Heavy Bookings Passenger traffic on the...

Nursing down under

We were transported in double-decker buses, as we drove through Sydney people recognised the British...

Chaos at the Sicily landings, July 1943

Our ship, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary 'Derwentdale', an oil tanker converted to carry our LCM landing...

My Last Day Ashore

Third trip Liverpool to Odessa, Russia, with ex-POWs then pick up British and allied ex-POWs from Odessa to...

The Men Who Missed The Tide: Third Selection

Captain Earl has written a series of poems in remembrance of the war veterans who returned, and of those...

British Naval Top Secret Operation - Dutch Landings and Re-occupation of Bali and Lombok - Chapter 3

Could it be an error on the UK LST Table and that the ships had only been transferred on a temporary basis...

Life Between 14 Years and 21 Years Old

So when we were in our late sixteens we went to the recruiting office for the Navy in Sheffield,this was a...

h.m.s.Barrymore.a1079039.

In June 1942 HMS Barrymore sailed out of Capetown towing a damaged corvette HMS Bellwort; our destination...

D Day sidestep

Seeing my expression, and in order to prevent a punch-up, he was obliged to explain to me that some of the...

CANOE SONG

I recently heard a recording of Paul Robeson singing the ‘Canoe Song’ from the film...

HMS Hunter in the Far East and the End of the War

As we reached Penang we were informed that the Japanese Army was prepared to surrender and a small Japanese...

HMS Kite

I was a boy of thirteen when HMS Kite was sunk and I still remember how devastated I was to have lost...