Just been reading about Patrick Macnee The bowler hatted hero of The Avengers. Just now appearing in the Bond film A View to a Kill on the telly....
Hi all, I received an update from The Royal Navy search team today in regards to requesting my great grandfather, Robert Salt’s, records of...
A few questions and has anyone got any answers? I have my father’s Royal Naval service record, the ‘original’ he kept since discharge in 1946...
I am trying to trace my grandfather's war history. Name; John Frederick Bickford born 9/11/1920 Totnes Devon I have his certificate of service...
Lt. Robert Hunter Davison, RNVR Page 2601 | Supplement 36544, 2 June 1944 | London ... [ATTACH] Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail 28th June 1944
Hi Everyone , does anyone have any information on LCT 533 ? I have recently received my grandfather naval records and he was aboard between...
What was the protocol for removing ID and 'dog tags' from a junior British naval rating in WW2. This person was critically injured in a motorcycle...
Hi Everyone I have found the minutes of a meeting of 12 individuals from all three services in Athens on 29th December 1944. It was of a meeting...
[ATTACH] Lt. Cdr. Richard Herbert Calcraft WYLD D.S.C. & Bar, M.I.D. 20th April 1912 Salisbury, Wiltshire - October 1990 Cheltenham,...
Hello: Could anyone please help me make sense of this Royal Navy record for my great grandfather. Family stories have been passed down saying he...
Petty Officer Alfred Caleb Nelson Pitney, RN P/JX 133374 Born 21 Oct 1913 Died 4 December 1985, Wakefield Mentioned in despatches on 19 Dec 1944...
Trying find out when the Navy stopped their mast manning displays I wondered who the last button boy was. I read somewhere it stopped about 1995....
I am researching a Royal Naval rating in 1939/1940, he was Eric Hurt service number D/SSX/26752. However, his death certificate, issued in...
A 1940 Able Seaman is shown as 'lent' from HMS Drake to Operation Dynamo, Chatham for a 3 week period from 7-23rd May 1940. He then returns to...
Norwegian cargo ship S.S. Ingerfem was lost on 29th December 1942. There was only one survivor from the forty-one persons onboard. warsailors.com...
Hi my great granduncle Arthur Alan Paternoster was in Royal Navy during WW2 I presume he joined up in 1939 as I’m going by his Australian Navy...
I would be grateful to receive for the help and advice of forum members regarding how I can confirm the longitude and latitude of the wreck of HMS...
Monday 30th November 1942 FAWCETT, Harry, Ordinary Seaman, RDF, P/JX 270554, killed [BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA] FOULKES, Harry, Stoker, RNPS,...
Hi Everybody, I know this site is primarily about the Second World War (yes, the name WW2 Talk is a clue !) but can anyone advise me where I...
I am due very soon to reschedule my visit to the National Archives and my main focus will be on 1944, and my Dad's time at a mysterious unit which...
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