- Contributed by听
- Alan Newman
- People in story:听
- Renier Hendriksen
- Location of story:听
- Atlantic, murmansk, Normandy
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A4462229
- Contributed on:听
- 15 July 2005
This story was submitted to the people's war site by a pupil at esher high school on behalf of Renier Hendriksen and has been added to the site with his permission. Renier hendriksen fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I volunteered for the Navy in December 1941, was accepted and reported for training at H.M.S Colingwood in may 1942, aged 18, 12 weeks of strict discipline routine, hopefully prepared us for the rigours of the sea in wartime.I joined my first ship H.M.S Glasgow in september 1942. We were part of the home fleet operating mainly in the atlantic, and escorting convoys to Russia.we also escorted the Liner Queen Navy taking Mr Churchill to meet President Roosevelt. The weather was generally rough and cold, but we did get a break in December 1943. When we visited the Azores, a group of islands in the Mid-atlantic: temperatures at 20 Degrees C. I was then involved in the D-day landings in June 1944. Giving weather forecasts to General Eisenhowes at S.H.E.A.F. My next ship was H.M.S Ocean, a new air craft carrier, a sea vampire! I was demobbed in may 1946, and look back with pride on my 4 years in the Navy. It turned boys into men.
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