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- Madeleine Mellor
- Location of story:听
- Nottinghamshire
- Article ID:听
- A1136107
- Contributed on:听
- 06 August 2003
My Dad, Ernest Booth, was born in Sawley, Long Eaton, Derbyshire in 1910. As far as I was ever told his total ambition was to join the Royal Navy as a boy sailor. He came from a lower working class background and his family would have been severely affected by the depression which hit the United Kindom during the 1920s. (He left school at the age of 14 in 1924).
Dad always said that he wanted to join the Navy but his parents refused to sign his admission papers. I was also told that in 1939, a married man, he volunteered the day War broke out so that he could ensure his enlistment into the Navy.
He was called up in 1941; trained at HMS Ganges and was then deployed to HMS Pembroke, Chatham. In the Autumn of 1941 he joined the company of HMS Cumberland, a County class cruiser and he remained a part of that ship's company until February 1946 when he was demobilised.
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