later BC I Battery in Italy - and a modern historian and recruiter for the SIS Nice to read that N/L had a fancy dress party. Sods operas and turns were part of battery life certainly in the 1980s.
Many thanks Andy we're sorting out some of our papers from father in law to post re this voyage. The file (ADM 199/1136) you photographed last week of the Convoy Comodore's report has plenty of detail about the voyage ... Commodore was a retired Admiral doing his bit .. and was pretty blunt in his comments. Main problem was slowness of Delius which was transporting the MT for several units .. meant that the main party of the various units arrived in Suez on same day as their MT on Delius. R
We've posted some letters and paersonal diary pages about the same voyage at http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/1792-4th-durham-survey-regiment/page-2?p=613804 Convoy was WS.4A under Commodore Henry Ralph Cooke The men on RMS Scythia were indeed fortunate ash she had not then been refitted for duty as a troop ship so the did indeed enjoy full Cunard service. The change to Dunera at Durban was a real shock ...
