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Re: HMS Hartland.Operation Torch
Posted by:
David Loveday
()
Date: December 23, 2009 09:30AM
Anonymous User Wrote:
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> > My father Ronald Pickard Leadind seaman RNR was
> on board H M S Hartland when it attempted landing
> in Oran harbour connected to Operation
> Torch.Hartland was sunk along with its sister ship
> H M S Walney with a great loss of life,my father
> survived and was taken prisoner of war for a short
> time,if there is anybody out there who has any
> information about other crew members please send
> through for me.
> I knew nothing regarding my
> fathers exploits during the war when he served in
> the RNR as he never spoke of them - but I have now
> become intrigued, having exhausted all the formal
> channels i/e navy records etc I am now trying to
> seek further information. Thankyou.
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> > My father Ronald Pickard Leadind seaman RNR was
> on board H M S Hartland when it attempted landing
> in Oran harbour connected to Operation
> Torch.Hartland was sunk along with its sister ship
> H M S Walney with a great loss of life,my father
> survived and was taken prisoner of war for a short
> time,if there is anybody out there who has any
> information about other crew members please send
> through for me.
> I knew nothing regarding my
> fathers exploits during the war when he served in
> the RNR as he never spoke of them - but I have now
> become intrigued, having exhausted all the formal
> channels i/e navy records etc I am now trying to
> seek further information. Thankyou.