I joined HMS Howe in 1943 and we went all over the world during the war. We were sent from Devonport to Scapaflow Scotland, were were delayed at Edinburgh due to two Canadians fighting which resulted ...

Richard Albert Leonard — Able Seaman - Royal Navy No. JX.523301 A brief history My father-in-law volunteered for the navy on the 4th August 1943 aged 17, he commenced enlistment on the 29th January ...

A veteran of the Falklands War has said “not a day goes by” that he does not think about his experiences of the conflict, 40 years after his ship, HMS Coventry, was attacked and sunk by Argentine jets ...

Christmas Day 1937 in Sheffield I received as my present a bulldog puppy whom I named 'Judy'. We moved. The War came. I went to boarding school and the parents had a difficult time feeding a ...

Part of a scrapped World War II battleship's gun turret is thought to have been cannibalised for use in a laboratory at a nuclear power plant. A former worker at Dounreay in Caithness has told staff ...

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