WRNS Reminiscences

• Leading WRNS (Torpedo Operator) Margaret 'Peggy' Smith (Nee Ellis) remembers her time attending HMS Vernon (R0 in Brighton for training during WW2.

• WRNS (Torpedoman) Kathleen Anderson  remembers her time  in the RN at HMS Caroline in Belfast during WW2.
   

Memories from those who served with MOBILE NAVAL AIR BASES (MONABs) and their component units during WW2. These pages are a part of 'A History of the Mobile Airfields of the Royal Navy - the MONAB Story' web site.

Memories of MONAB 1 HMS NABBINGTON

• Leading Air Fitter (Engines) Geoff Williams (M.R. 1)

• Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Gordon Theaker (M.R. 1)

• Aircraft Artificer 4th Class (Ordinance) Maurice Ayling (1843 Squadron)

Memories of MONAB 2 HMS NABBERLEY

• Sub Lt. Michael Price  (Test Flight)

• Lt. Gordon Pursall (Salvage Section)

• Aircraft Artificer 4th Class (Electrical) Laurence Russell

• Leading Air Fitter (Engines) Bruce Robinson. (Test Flight)

 

Memories of MONAB 3 HMS NABTHORPE

• Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Stan Spencer

• Aircraft Artificer 4th Class (Ordinance) Maurice Ayling (1843 Squadron)

• Air Mechanic (L) Sydney J Smith

Memories of MONAB 4 HMS NABARON

•  Peter Hyde

• Telegraphist Kenneth Peterkin

• Leading Air Fitter (Engines) Reg Veale (M.S.R. 6)

• Air Mechanic (Airframes) George Pickering  (M.S.R. 4)

Memories of MONAB 5 HMS NABSWICK

• Leading Air Fitter (Ordinance) Kenneth Lowe

• Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Charles Davidson (812  Squadron)

• Aircraft Artificer 4th Class (Ordinance) Maurice Ayling (1843 Squadron)

 

Memories of MONAB 6 HMS NABSTOCK

• Aircraft Artificer 4th Class (Ordinance) Maurice Ayling (1843 Squadron)

 

Memories of MONAB 7 HMS NABREEKIE

• Air Mechanic (Engines) Don Mackay

 

Memories of MONAB 8 HMS NABCATCHER

• Commander A.W.F. Sutton (Executive officer)

• Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Terry Rushton (M.S.R. 9.)

• Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Charles Davidson (812  Squadron)

• Leading Air Mechanic (Electrical) Leslie Dickinson

• Writer 'Mac' McCarthy, (Captain's office staff)
   

Memories of MONAB 9 HMS NABROCK

• Stores Assistant, Jim Davey

 

Memories from those who served with British Pacific and East Indies Fleets during WW2. These pages are a part of The British Pacific & East Indies Fleets web site.

• Telegraphist Anthony Balch - memories of the Destroyer Depot ship HMS TYNE

• Air Mechanic (Airframes) Albert Tucker - memories of the Aircraft Maintenance Carrier HMS PIONEER

General WW2 memories:

• Sub Lt. (A) Peter Hyde RNVR
  In ‘'Trapped Above the Clouds by Coincidence'’ Peter recalls how a chain of coincidences led led him to the war in the Pacific and eventually, to an encounter in a bar in London after the war.

• Royal Naval Hospital Chatham X-Ray Department Staff 1943
  Dr Ken Hines recalls how his parents met while working in the X-Ray department, and how his mother went on to do work for some of the most senior members of the naval medical staff.

National Service memories:

• .CODER (Specialist) ANGUS KIDD
  In "I Spy" Angus recalls his time as a national serviceman in the Royal Navy, his selection and training for specialisation in interception of  Russian communications during the Cold War era.

• Leading Coder (S) Dennis Mills
  Dennis recalls his life in the royal navy as a national service entrant 1952-54, He trained as a Coder (Special) and served at H.M.S. Royal Albert in Germany before his demob and then ten years in the reserves.
   

Other memories:

• MEMORIES OF BEING A WARTIME EVACUEE  
  Most people hear the word ‘evacuee’ and think of the mass movement of children from cities and the coast to the British countryside -John Bedwell recalls how he, and his brother, became two of the overseas evacuees who went to the US in 1940, returning home on HMS Thane in 1944.