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Radio School at Yatesbury in Wiltshire we were told that we were to be taught the new and very secret...

Empire Capulet

We finished our trip taking our Dessert Rats to Taranto in Italy. We left Toronto and returned to Egypt,...

The Last Day of SS Kingswood : A Tribute to Bob Lang

The Last Day of SS Kingswood A Tribute to BOB LANG, Quarter Master of the Kingswood. The diesel sound and...

The SS Settler

We did not deceive the enemy and we were attacked three times by the Italian air force, twice by bombers...

Everybody suddenly started singing

There was Welsh regiment on our ship and they started singing “Guide me, o thou great Jehovah”...

The surrender of the Bronzo

The troops had landed earlier and the Eighth Army was working up the coast of Sicily... It was an Italian...

Liverpool to Bombay by crowded steamship

From the time we boarded in Liverpool until the time we disembarked in Bombay it was six weeks....

My Narrow Escape

We got to the jetty and approaching was a low aircraft with gunfire and we promptly 'hit the deck'....

Sightseeing WRENS on the Suez

One of them was WREN Cotton, sister of the famous Henry Cotton, Champion Golfer... The two WRENs were...

HMS EAGLE

After three hours in the water he was picked up and told a funny story about having a shower and a hand...

Sinking of Lancastria

Jack was a Merchant Seaman and was sunk in the South Atlantic by the Admiral Sheer; he survived. Cuthbert...

One Man's War

This story is compiled from over 4 year's service and includes many photographs of ships and people and...

Leonard Edwin Dormer

Leonard was an aircraft fitter on an air craft carrier and served in malta, the South China Sea and...

HMS DIDO BOMBARDING THE ITALIAN MAINLAND IN THE GULF OF GAETA.

Jeffrey Dawson - HMS Illustrious in Malta

The story of my time on HMS Illustrious can be found on my personal page on this website....

USS Ordranaux Gulf of Gaeta Italy 1944

USS Ordranaux Gulf of Gaeta Italy 1944...