To understand what O.A.S. means is simply that of all the personnel in the R.N. only those who actually...
As duty operator I was not allowed to leave the office on any pretence, not even to fetch my supper from...
Mr. Murdoch and his batman, Les Morgan, are going to Reykjaskoli with Sergeant Speake and I want you and...
One evening I went with some of the D.L.I. lads to the local cinema, and as we strolled leisurely along the...
We did turn in eventually, but with the greatest reluctance, only when the Orderly Sergeant came on deck...
My companions were Arthur, Les, Charlie and Harry, all signallers; and Bert, Ted and Ray, of the Company...
Lieutenant Murdoch, our signals officer, who had travelled down from battalion H.Q. at Reykjaskoli to...
In rotation round the hut our nine-man signal section were: Corporal 'Ashy' Warman, N.C.O. i/c.,...
The next day the destroyers again swept around in searching circles as the U-Boats were thought to be still...
We didn't know about Dunkirk, but in June 1940, we were evacuated from the port of St. Nazaire by a...
In May 1941, HMS Nigeria escorted the 'pride of the Navy' - HMS HOOD - out of Scapa Flow into the...
We left Glasgow on July 8 and set sail for Iceland as escort to the Aircraft Carrier, Argus on its mission...
That gave me the chance to pass the tea surreptitiously to Charlie before returning to get some sugar... We...
I then climbed over the side of the cockpit to see Nicol floumdering in the water but felt a bit relieved...
Next morning we were taken on transport with the infantry down to Tilbury Docks, boarded the landing craft...
When I came out Wisteria was on patrol, so I was transferred to a drifter ‘ Fairhaven ‘ which...
The Icelanders had plans, delayed because of the war, to centrally heat all the houses in Reykjavik with...
Orders came and the landings commenced into France and as he called it 'chasing Jerry'. Arriving at...
I served for six years in the RAF throughout the war, initially stationed in Iceland. There was no bombing...
We went straight to Coast Defence in Dorset and from there made several trips to Iceland, a neutral...
My father worked as an apprentice in Portsmouth Dockyard prior to WW2. He rose to become a Chief Petty...
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