Thank you very much !
Do you think it’s possible to order digitized copies just concerning the period (August 15th to 30th) ?
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Books, Web Sites, and Associations / Helping researchers / Re: Hms Emperor deck log and pilot’s mission report operation Dragoon
on: 18 October 2023 08:56:47 am
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Books, Web Sites, and Associations / Helping researchers / Re: Hms Emperor deck log and pilot’s mission report operation Dragoon
on: 18 October 2023 08:28:35 am
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All such records are held by the National Archives.
For log See: Ships log HMS Emperor ADM 53/119347 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1583654 Ships log HMS Pursuer ADM 53/120287 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1584593 For Op Dragoon there are several files, although whether they contain pilots reports I would not know see: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_ep=operation%20dragoon&_cr=adm&_dss=range&_sd=1944&_ed=1944&_ro=any&_st=adv |
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Books, Web Sites, and Associations / Helping researchers / Hms Emperor deck log and pilot’s mission report operation Dragoon
on: 18 October 2023 07:39:02 am
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Started by Pierre GIUSTINIANI - Last Post by Pierre GIUSTINIANI | ||
Hi Gents,
I’m unable to find those documents and particularly. Does someone has any idea where they can be located ? I have tried Imperial War Museum and Devonport Naval Heritage Centre without success. Period runs from August 15th and August 30th 1944. Very hard also to find deck logs of Emperor and Pursuer… Thanks in advance Best regards Pierre |
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Photographs / General photograph sharing board / Re: Father stayed with Canadian Navy friend while on leave in Canada in WW2
on: 17 October 2023 09:56:14 am
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Started by Philip L - Last Post by Philip L | ||
There are some names in my father's (Norman Lock) 1946 diary (In photo) in relation to his stay at Oromocto, Sunbury, New Brunswick Canada during WW2. I am not sure of the relationship of Douglas Miller to Mrs. Urban Miller. And how the other names in the 1946 diary were involved with Norman. I did presume that Mrs. Hugh Miller was the mother of Douglas Miller (Because of the Canadian Telegram details). Norman did receive a letter from Miss Louise Neales, addressed to HMS Findhorn, with a post box address in England, from memory (I still have that letter). Mrs. Douglas Miller wrote a letter to Norman's father in 1953 to inquire about how Norman was getting on. The letter said that Norman was a very good friend of her husband (Douglas Miller) and Norman stayed with her husband, during WW2, while on leave at Oromocto, Sunbury (I still have that letter).
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on: 16 October 2023 07:29:57 pm
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Started by BristolPete2 - Last Post by BristolPete2 | ||
I am going through the photos of my mother-in-law and came across this photo. I wondered if anyone might be able to identify the uniform or the cap badge for me. We know there were relatives with a link to the British Navy, but also to the Merchant Navy. I don't know how to tell the badges apart.
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on: 09 October 2023 12:32:28 pm
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Started by springer5 - Last Post by PhiloNauticus | ||
To answer your questions –
Victory – was the shore barracks at Portsmouth. The numbers were just for accounting purposes Shore bases with names in brackets – smaller ships did not carry any admin staff, so all their paperwork, pay etc was carried out by a shore base, referred to as a ‘parent’. So, where you see, for example, Victory (Enchantress), it meant that he was serving onboard the Enchantress, but Victory barracks was looking after the admin work Boscawen (Bleswedd) – Boscawen was the shore base at Portland – the name in brackets is actually Cherwell. This was an armed trawler employed on Fishery Protection duties I presume you have the details of the various ships listed (Tiger / Enchantress / Royal Sovereign / Boreas / Duncan /Keppel / St Fagan / Cherwell) ? and the shore bases? |
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on: 09 October 2023 10:18:02 am
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Started by Philip L - Last Post by Philip L | ||
This is the far-left section and final section. Photo sections are now all the way from far left, as you look at the photo to far right, as you look at the photo. The first section called small section was between the sections called left and right. Again, I think I did crop some of the background and structure out of this far left section unfortunately, to get to an appropriate size.
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on: 09 October 2023 10:03:34 am
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This is the right section. I have had to crop some of the background to get so it is an appropriate size unfortunately. I think there is a ship and structures in the background in whole photo.
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on: 09 October 2023 09:53:30 am
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Started by Philip L - Last Post by Philip L | ||
I will find out if a professional photographer shop can make a copy of the whole original large, long WW2 Royal Navy Group photo at a reduced size, so it can be shown as one photo. That may take some time. So, I have put another section here. Left section.
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on: 08 October 2023 12:35:52 pm
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Started by springer5 - Last Post by springer5 | ||
Hello
I'm totally new to understanding royal navy service records and I'm hoping someone with more experience can help get me started. I've attached the record of my great uncle Harry, and I have some questions about it. 1. Victory 1,2,3 and 4 Were these all shore based station? Were they all at Portsmouth? 2. Shore bases folowed by other names in brackets About 2/3 of the way down it states St. Angelo (Duncan), then later Excellent (St. Fagan). I know that St. Angelo and Excellent were both shore bases. Does this mean his time was split between a shore base and ship (in brackets), or does the shore base followed by a bracketed name have another specific meaning? 3. In 1937 it says Harry was on "Boscawen (Bleswedd)", as far as I can make out(?). I can 't find any shore station called that or a ship called Blesswedd (or similar) I'd really appreciate any help in understanding how these records are generally formatted and what/where some of these place are. Also is there a good reference for future use that anyone can point me towards so that I can get the hang of this for myself? Thanks very much for any help at all. Neal |