Hi All I wonder if someone can give me some information about HMS Pollux please. I am researching a naval officer Lt R Haynes who early in his...
Found this nice painting today of HMS JED [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Hi I was wondering if anyone could advise me who to contact to gain some understanding of my dad's navy records. He was based in Chatham and...
Hi all, hopefully, the brains trust here will be able to help me out! Have been going through some photographs of my mum's family and we came...
The Vickers K was used extensively across the British and Commonwealth forces during the Second World War, but as I discuss in the video, it also...
My grandfather was in the Navy both before during and after WW2. I have got a copy of his service history but it's thrown up an anomaly. According...
Hello, I am researching a Royal Navy petty officer who sent an Xmas card home in 1943. The card has "P.O's Mess, Burn Camp" printed on it. Does...
In September 1919 in a tragic accident HMS Verulam (F19) detonated a British mine in the Baltic and sunk but in 1943 a second HMS Verulam (R28)...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is 96 Year Old Cyril Porter RN who died recently on the 5th November. He was 96 years old and a veteran of the...
Would this be typical a RN Ratings Service Number! Passed by word of mouth by a relative from a piece of paper her husband saved and not a...
I'm trying to discover the details surrounding the following man; Alan Jones C/MX105431 Royal Navy He died on the 12/2/1944 whilst serving with...
[ATTACH] I continue to be contacted by the families of men who were saved or died on the night of 11 – 12 November 1942 when HMS Hecla was...
A German plane dropped some bombs on Market Street, Aberdeen on 7th August 1942. A Lt -Cdr John Hall was pulled from the rubble and died the...
Chief Petty Officer PITCHER, ERNEST JAMES Service Number P/227029 Died 10/02/1946 Aged 57 H.M.S. Attack Royal Navy V C, D S M Croix de...
I would like to see the log for a Royal Navy destroyer HMS Fabius particularly when she that served in the Adriatic Sea in December 1944. How can...
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I have been looking through the burial records for my local Cemetery and have found this record Benjamin Samuel Forest (age 59) died 19/03/1945...
hi all, had a lot of help from you guys researching my grandfather, now I am trying to find more info on his two brothers Sub lieutenant j b...
Never heard of him, but an alert from Oxford University pointed to this book 'Crash Start':In 1940 a first-year student at Oxford gave up his...
Hello everybody, I'm currently looking into my great-grandfather's military records on Ancestry. We were aware of him being in the Royal Navy,...
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