Allied troops, P.O.W. and workers in Great Britain during WW2.
Still with the Royal Navy in home waters.
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The last of the Royal Navy in the Atlantic and Home waters (and Stoke on Trent!) before we get posted abroad.
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A last look at the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel before we go into the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Still with the RN in the Med'.
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This is a wonderful Forum. Very pleased to see the SA connection with HMSAS Natal. Why did we not do this as a display? Did I say "no to GB" because its not SA? If so, I am sorry. I was wrong. I am enjoying this tremendously. My Uncle Reg was in the Royal Navy in corvettes in the North Atlantic, When asked what he did in the war, he always said he was in the "Submarine Service"! My Dad told me that he had seen HMS Hood once as a boy. My Dad was from Hull. As a six year old boy he actually saw R38 airship crash into the Humber. And remembered it. "It was awful", he said.
You didn't say yes and you didn't say no. One day in the distant future (there another 5 volumes) we can serialise it! I took the South African section (not included in the 'The famous {to be} Five) out and you did post that. I was once in a submarine in Hull! And yes I am enjoying posting it - it has become my new '5 a day'! A lot of 5's today. 'Me
Still in the Med' and Gibraltar which was one of the starting points for Operation Torch.
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Operation torch and Operation Tiger. And was that a South African Sailor on H.M.S. Stork?
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It is a few years since I wrote this but even now as I read what I wrote then I feel the tears well up in my eyes,
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