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A Week in Belgium
Taken from 'WW2 Peoples War, An archive of World War II memories'
With permission of the author, Vic Chanter
From Chatham to Dunkirk
The Dolphin Code
DOLPHIN CODE
The unofficial code used between submarines and surface ships engaged in exercises.
WW2 - The First Eight Months: In the Royal Navy
Taken from 'WW2 Peoples War, An archive of World War II memories'
With permission of the author, Vic Chanter
North Sea (Norway)
Sept 3rd 1939
11.15am At sea in North Sea with BBC News Bulletin being broadcast throughout the ship to the crew. I was on watch when the all important news item with the declaration of war came through.
IT WASN'T ALL MAYHEM
by Harry Hargreaves
It was the 8th of July 1943 and the largest Armada of ships ever put together was all around us. They plodded on and we ran around them listening, looking and let's face it, praying. We knew now what a precious cargo those ships contained, over 150 thousand men and landing craft. It was the Navy's responsibility to get them to the beaches of Sicily and make sure by our vigilance that the enemy could not stop them. Overhead the fighters patrolled in what seemed to be an endless stream; a heartening sight.
LIFE AS A TELEGRAPHIST AIRCREW (TEL-AIR)
The ending of WW2 brought a situation where a number of rating aircrew, pilots, observers , and Telegraphist Air Gunners (T.A.G.s) still had time to serve in the Fleet Air Arm. At the same time there were thoughts that all operational aircrew must be commissioned. Many of the rating pilots and observers were, in fact commissioned and some went on to reach high rank.
RN W/T STATION KRANJI, SINGAPORE 1941-42
First published in the Communicator Magazine – Spring 1955
By Herbert W. Radwell
December 8, 1941, Japanese troops made initial landings on the mainland of Malaya; at Singora on the northeast coast, and further down the coast at Kota Bahru. On December 9, 1941, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battle-cruiser HMS Repulse set sail up the east coast of Malaya in the hope of intercepting enemy transports sailing to Malaya. They were both spotted by a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft.
My Second Ship
by Frank Shaw C/JX 152405
I left HMS Sussex which was in Gladstone Dock in Liverpool for a short refit in May 1940 and was drafted to Chatham Barracks (HMS Pembroke).
I was only there for a very short time before I was drafted to stand by a newly built Hunt Class Destroyer (HMS Hambledon) at Swan Hunter, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
We travelled as a Ship's Company in a special train all night to arrive at Newcastle Station in the early morning and from there were marched through the town to the shipyard.
My first ship
by Frank Shaw C/JX 152405
I joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on the 15th March 1937, aged 15 years and 6 months. Going to HMS Ganges at Shotley on the same day. I was in a party of other Boys from the T.S. Arethusa and we left 85 Whitehall which was the main recruiting office for the Royal Navy in London.
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Originally published in the Communicator Magazine Easter 1957
Starring : Alec Guiness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, James Donald
The film opens as two or three hundred solider prisoners, half starved, unclean and unshaven are emerging from the tropical jungle after a 500 mile trek up from Singapore, and getting their first glimpses of the prison camp which is to be their home.