This starred George Formby and a Yorkshire comedian, whose name Arthur has unfortunately forgotten... He is...
As the very first troopship, carrying Japanese Prisoner's of War, home to the U K, entered, every ship...
It was recorded 96 shells were fired at us and didn't hit us with one On June 7th 1944 General...
We steamed to within 1, 000 yards when the sky suddenly lit up with 3 distress flares and the skipper took...
From June 1941 to July 1944 he worked as a supervisory electrician in the Pembroke Dockyard South Wales,...
During three weeks stay in New York was fitted out with US Navy Khaki uniform then, together with Naval...
The Atlantic Merchant Ships carrying goods and troops from the USA were in convoys made up of ships of all...
After training in the Conway and at the RN College, Greenwich,service in the Renown, including visit to...
Ten days prior to D-Day we were moved from the American Air Base at Beaulieu to RAF Manston - supposedly...
On arrival, after the three-week voyage, I found myself back in combined Operations, this time as a member...
Took convoy to Tobruk a week later and was dive bombed by 15 Stuka's five miles off Tobruk. Ships hit...
I was on mine-sweeping until just before D-Day when I did some more specialised training and we used to...
'The next thing i saw was the main arament swing round on HM Nelson and opened fire on the approaching...
My father, Arthur James Sinker volunteered for the Royal Navy in May 1940 and was trained as a R.D.F....
Took convoy to Tobruk a week later and was dive bombed by 15 Stuka's five miles off Tobruk. Ships hit...
This is a brief story about my father Mr Sydney Dyson Antrobus. During WW2 he served on several vessels...
John, born 1900, volunteered as a Boy Sailor in 1916, served through two World Wars and retired with the...
On his first ship 'Ajax' he went to the Mediterranean helping to defend Malta sailing between Malta...
Our main job at Troon was to follow - at a reasonable distance - the target vessel, HMS Pollux, which was...
On the 16th June 1943 at 11.30pm in a position some 600 miles south of the equator and west of the occupied...
Several months after I also joined the Sea Cadets T/S Anson, thereby giving me a choice of uniform- one for...
I served abroad a minesweeping trawler based at Cliff Quay which entailed four days ‘sweeping’...
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