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- Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2005
- People in story:听
- Mr Noakes
- Location of story:听
- Gibralta, Singapore, Java, Batvia, Australia
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A4393145
- Contributed on:听
- 07 July 2005
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I was in a Navy convoy for six years. Our first trip was from Grenock to Gibralta and I remember having to pick up Merchant Navy soldiers after their ship was torpedoed. Some of them had horrible injuries and I don't like to think about it now.
I was at the fall of Singapore and also traveled to Java and Batvia as it was then called. I also went to Australia- a journey which took three weeks with only boiled rice for us to eat!
At the end of the war I was part of a group of core vet ships which swept the North Atlantic for German submarines. We were positioned 10 miles apart and covered the whole sea in three weeks.
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