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Join the Navy and See the World: 15. Malta

by Dave Thacker

Contributed by 
Dave Thacker
People in story: 
Leonard Stanley Thacker, John Bray
Location of story: 
Malta
Background to story: 
Royal Navy
Article ID: 
A6200731
Contributed on: 
19 October 2005

Len Thacker, left, with John Bray in Malta, believed to be 5.5.1944.

This story is submitted to the People's War Website by David Thacker, a volunteer from BBC Radio Northampton, on behalf of his Mother, Isabella, wife of the late Len Thacker, and has been added to the site with her permission. She fully understands and accepts the site's terms and conditions.
Len was frequently at Malta with HMS Thruster during 1943-45, but just once was there at the same time as P.O. John Bray, his sister Elsie's husband, who was serving in HMS Anson. They met up and had a photograph taken.

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