Hi everyone Here is a recommendation for the award of MBE for Lt-Cdr John Douglas Tooms, RNVR. It was made by Sqn Ldr L Symonds, OC 2902 Field...
During current research into my Fathers WW2 Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve service, I discovered the following book: HOSTILITIES ONLY - TRAINING...
Hi all, I am wondering if any of you can help. I'm researching the above named officer as he has an extremely interesting career during World...
Monday 6th July 1942 HMS President FRASER, Thomas A.S, Lieutenant RNVR [ChM] Lt Fraser is recorded as being lost on this date. Does anyone have...
To my generation, he is better known as the actor that played the 2nd incarnation of Dr. Who. In his biography, written by his son Michael,...
If this forum cannot help I don't know who can... Guy Colquhoun RICHARDSON, born 8 September 1921. Silver Medal at 1948 Olympics. RNVR (A)...
Commando Chaplains left to right: Rev. Maurice A.P. Wood, D.S.C. R.N.V.R. No. 3 Commando Bde/ No. 48 Commando Rev. Arthur Drake, C.F., No. 1...
As noted in ADM199/799, on 19th August 1941 HMT Thorbryn and was towing (probably, the sources are confused) landing craft LCT12 [A12] and LCM25...
MEAD, Reginald H, Ty/Lieutenant, RNVR (HMS Excellent), [DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY] During operations in support of the Dunkirk whilst onboard...
Hi, I am looking for some help with finding more details regarding the circumstances of the death of Sub-Lieutenant (A), Leonard Francis Cradock,...
Hi I am looking at a pair of WW2 medals and they do not have any info besides the box of issue and on the front it says Mr JE Lindsay180 Endike...
Casualty Details | CWGC Name and Rank LIEUTENANT (A) PETER THORP ECKERSLEY Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve H.M.S. Raven. Date...
There's lots of books and documentaries about German U-boats but I've always wondered why is there so little about Royal Navy submarines? Did they...
Hi, I'm a first-time poster searching for information about a relative, Thomas Derrick STEELE who died in an air crash on Christmas Eve 1943 in...
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I'm researching Lieutenant-Commander John 'Jock' Moffat, the man credited with crippling the Bismark. I have quite a bit on him though cannot...
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,...
Hi all I’m trying to find information on the above gentleman I know he was in command of HMS Gulland 1944-45 Regards James
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