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Sad action

I must go back to the Sultan Hisar where I met and became friends with a stoker named Lewis Williams from...

John Smith鈥檚 Navy Story.

I was an anti-aircraft look out on the bridge on HMS Gloucester, I went to answer the call of nature and as...

Flower class Corvette K19, HMS Nigella, visits Cocos Islands, 1944

Flower class Corvette K19, HMS Nigella, visits Cocos Islands, 1944...

Glynn Howe - Off to Sea

Glynn's war time memories have been recalled by his Brother, Gerry Howe....

A FISHY STORY FROM WWII

Chief Petty Officer Herbert Lane was sent back to his ship HMS Medway in Alexandria and escaped being taken...

WARTIME IN THE WRNS

After 2 weeks training I was drafted to Kirkwall, Orkneys to HMS Pegasus. I was invited to go on board The...

Gordon Foster's Story

It had been built in Barrow in Furness in 1944, was transferred to the Pacific Fleet under the Captain Ben...

Return to England

I made several trips from Australia to Sumatra and Singapore, taking away stocks of aviation fuel from...

Wartime Memories of Falmouth

In the Naval Control Office at Falmouth, we had to do the merchant navy codes and decodes to keep the...

A FISHY STORY FROM WWII

Chief Petty Officer Herbert Lane was sent back to his ship HMS Medway in Alexandria and escaped being taken...

My Father鈥檚 War Experiences

The second event occurred on the evening before they were due to sail back to Alexandria, when the Captain...

Hazardous Journey

In early April 1941 I embarked at Liverpool in RMS Highland Chieftain After leaving Liverpool, Highland...

Northern Rescue

The Isle of Urst is the most northerly of the Shetland Islands, and it was here on the 28th of June 1944...

Crete

The more our skipper, Captain Guy Grantham, and our pilot, Navigating Officer, Lieutenant Lumsden, worked...

Hazardous Journey

In early April 1941 I embarked at Liverpool in RMS Highland Chieftain After leaving Liverpool, Highland...

The Adventures of Ronald J Beer

We were introduced to :- o General Eisenhower. o General Montgomorey and several high ranking Naval...

king george v

HMS King George V then retuned to Sydney where I spent Christmas 1945 in the town of Bathurst, New South...

I joined the navy from Bude

When I joined the navy I trained on HMS Raleigh for six weeks then on HMS Victorious in Portland Harbour...

The Strathallan- Part 29: My Voyage on the Strathallan Part Two

The 23,722 tons liner: the SS Strathallan was built at Barrow-in-Furness and owned by the Peninsular &...

Boarding Officer

I acted as liaison between the captains of merchant convoy ships and the Royal Navy control officer ashore....

The gold watch

My uncle, Captain Louis Parkes RNR, during the war was an RNR captain and served on many Atlantic...

Sinking of HMS Dorsetshire off Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

As an Able Seaman, he had set sail from Wallsend on the Tyne on board HMS Dorsetshire. Finally, after 30...

Hartlepool's WW II Heroes

Robert Dougal Crombie was the second son of James Crombie and Agnes Stott Dougal who lived in Eyemouth,...

Aboard HMS Sussex 1945

The Japs attacked us with suicide planes, one of which hit us and another struck and sank HMS Vestal. On...

Shepway Libraries

So I had a medical, went into the Airforce and then the Navy said: "Oh... we can take you. They made...

Survival

I went to Southampton and shortly after made my first trip across the Atlantic to Canada... From Canada we...