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Entry Date: 2009-11-19 08:28:44
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| Visitor Comments: My father who served on the Waimarama in Operation Pedestal sadly passed away oct.20th 2009 He would have been 91 years on the 25th Oct 2009 |
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Entry #: 99 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-15 18:20:54
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| Visitor Comments: My late father was Petty Officer William Woods was on the Empire Hope and remained at his gun after it was torpeded. He was later picked up byt the Penn, but after many hours. |
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Entry #: 98 |
Entry Date: 2009-08-31 06:54:59
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Visitor Comments: My father Jack Douch served on HMS Bramham and attended the reunion in Malta in 2002. We have both very much enjoyed this website and all of its information. In particular we were delighted to see the photo of HMS Ohio supposedly being towed by Ledbury and Penn. In fact Ohio was towed by Bramham and Penn, Bramham being the only attached ship on entering Grand Harbour. And Dad has signed the photo!
If there are any ex Bramham shipmates around Dad would love to hear from them. |
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Entry #: 97 |
Entry Date: 2009-08-21 18:54:52
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Visitor Comments: I am the son of Gunner "Bill" Todd of the Royal West Kent Regiment who served in Valetta when the convoy which was known as Operation Pedestal arrived. My Dad was in the BBC film about the convoy, and was active in the George Cross Island Association up until his death. He was then President of Bognor Regis Round Table, if my memory serves me aright.
I'm Graham Todd (now 62 years of age) and was at one time Mayor of Crawley and a West Sussex County Counciller. I'd be happy to hear from anyone that know my father, or knew of my father, in Malta. my email address is grahamtodd(two) (at) googlemail (dot) com [change bracketed words accordingly].
Sorry to hear of the demise of your grandfather's demise, but the website is a fitting memorial to his bravery. Graham |
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Entry #: 96 |
Entry Date: 2009-08-13 16:52:17
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Lynne McAteer |
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| Visitor Comments: It's some time since I last visited this site. Came back today in memory of my Grandad - who was on the Waimarama when it was sunk,on this day. So sorry to hear of Danny's passing. R.I.P. Danny... God Bless You All. |
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Entry #: 95 |
Entry Date: 2009-06-19 18:54:19
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| Visitor Comments: My cousin Fred Bellis was a member of the creww of HMS Eagle.He deid four years ago.I believe that he never recovered from the ordeal when the ship was sunk. |
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Entry Date: 2009-05-09 21:20:30
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Ciaran Carson |
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| Visitor Comments: my grandfather John Larmour 1916-1992 served on the HMS Penelope (pepperpot) in the malta convoys the ship was awarded the heroes of malta for the service it done in malta it was in malta that she got the nickname hms pepperpot when she was stuck in malta at the end of march 1942 she got out on the 8th of april with so many holes on her side she looked like a pepperpot she was the last ship to get out and force k came to an end she would be back in action by 2nd december 1942 and was sunk by u-boat 410 on the 18th of february at 06:58 of the coast of anzio italy with a crew of 621 onboard 415 died 206 survived my granda was one of those he was deaf in one ear from the oil he also said he was on watch when the torpedos struck and said thats what saved his life he also said that as the ship went down he could reach out and touch it it was that close he was mia for 3 months |
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Entry #: 93 |
Entry Date: 2009-05-05 07:51:47
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| Visitor Comments: Last year as the CEO Of Bay Street Complex i had the honour and privilege of hosting Mr Allan Shaw to unveil a floor plaque commemorating Pedestal and in which Mr Shaw signed the name Ohio |
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Entry #: 92 |
Entry Date: 2009-04-24 09:33:19
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Jill Trevaskis |
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Visitor Comments: My Dad was Able Seaman Basil Charles Goodban[Bill]
The Malta Convoy 'Operation Pedestal'.
The Clan Ferguson' was hit and he was picked up by the enemy and put into a prison camp and later escaped
He passed away in 1982 aged 60
My Mum will be taking a look at this site later |
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Entry #: 91 |
Entry Date: 2008-12-31 22:15:06
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| Visitor Comments: Wonderfully informative and moving website |
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Entry #: 90 |
Entry Date: 2008-11-30 16:26:36
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Visitor Comments: Like Linda, sadly, I only found Danny's fantastic web-site when it was to late. My dad John Kenyon (known to all as Jack) died suddenly on the 16th of November 2008 aged 82.
My mum recalls the name of the Brisbane Star as a ship he was due to sail on when he was given a medical discharge from the merchant navy (she also says she recalls that it was later sunk although I have found no evidence of this). We have no idea if he'd sailed on Her previously as we are struggling to find some documents we haven't seen for years. We do however have an I.D. card from when he sailed on the S.S. Marquesa in 1945.
If anybody knew dad or may be able to shed any light on the ships he may have sailed on I would be delighted to hear from you. I have photo's of my dad with unnamed crewmates on unnamed ships (west coast of Africa 1943, South America 1944) that I would be glad to share once I have scanned them into my computer.
Contact me at postmaster@tonykenyon.plus.com |
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