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War Memories of Jan van der Salm

From there we were sent to Mombassa and Nairobi and from there to Colombo. From there we sere sent to the...

We Led The Way

I needed a piston which I obtained from an Army depot in Newport, Isle of Wight but it was too tall, I...

War Memories of Jan van der Salm

From there we were sent to Mombassa and Nairobi and from there to Colombo. From there we sere sent to the...

Wartime Memories of Ian Gordon -- Part 2: H.N.M.S. Tunsberg Castle

Within weeks of surviving the sinking of H.M.S. Lawford, I found myself in his Norwegian Majesty's Ship...

I Survive a Rough Crossing

I was an 18 year old Motor Transport Mechanic based at RAF West Kirkby, near Liverpool. We met other RAF...

Torpedoed in the North Atlantic

On this occasion however, there was some urgency in getting the cargo to Britain, so the ship Port Victor...

My Father's War in the Submarines and other ships

From 1939 to 30th January my father served on the submarine HMS Snapper which was one time bombed by a...

Don's Doughnuts

First stop was Gibralter 2nd stop Malta, 3rd stop Port Suez through the canal to Aden then on to Ceylon,...

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS

When the RPO was satisfied with the explanation of me playing table tennis for Devonport he then told me...

Minesweeping in the Med and subs surrender in Derry

Tommy Dolan's, where the wife lived in the Bogside.We got married after the war.I've been here...

Memories of Roy Wickham, Amberley, Knowle Lane, Halland.

Senior officer of the flotilla came aboard - crisis ahead - Germans assembling at Rotterdam. I was on the...

Batting For Life

When the RPO was satisfied with the explanation of me playing table tennis for Devonport he then told me...

Kenneth Coomb's wartime story

Kenneth Coomb's wartime story

At the outbreak of WW2, I was an evacuee, having been sent to Petersfield with my school. I was billeted...

The Royal Navy in Gibraltar

I was given a new uniform and assigned to a landing crew in Scotland which was used to take troops onto the...

I Guess They Just Wanted Jam On It

My first wartime trip was on the 鈥楽anta Clara Valley鈥� to Narvick and we were all together in...

OPENING FIRE ON THE CHARNOS

In the meantime the convoy escort of the 10th Cruiser Squadron which was, the Norfolk, the Belfast and the...

The Sinking of the Leopoldville.

H.M.S. Brilliant then signaled the Troopship Leopoldville and the other vessels to commenence zagging, a...

Return of Autralian and New Zealand Prisoners of War

On the 3rd of July 1945 I was a Naval Petty Officer ERA on passage to Australia to the British Pacific...

Swordfish over the Atlantic

Carriers cost far more than aircraft so, if a plane crashed on the deck, no time was spent on manhandling...

Beach Patrol - 6th June '44

H.M.S. KELANTAN

H.M.S. 鈥淜elantan鈥� which was to be my home for the next two years and 2 months , was originally...

HMS Hunter and 4 Carrier Borne Air Liaison Section

During 1944-5, HMS Hunter sailed from Gibraltar to Alexandria seven times, relieving Malta and other...

HMS Rodney - my first days at sea

The catapult crew then inserted a cordite charge into the breech, the engine run to full power, a signal...

Meeting Old friends

We of ten, operated with units of the American Navy, also their Merchant Navy that lost so many of their...

FOR DANIEL

I even won a competition in London for signalling, where I had to compete against other Sea Cadet Corps...