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Re: HMS Loch Glendhu
Posted by:
Ron Oliver
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Date: February 12, 2010 05:40PM
Hi Karen,
nice to receive your message, sorry it took so long to reply !!!if your dad was anything like Bill(hearing some of the stories from the older members of my family) they must have had a great time together !! Sadly Bill died on submarine HMS Truculent whilst on trials off the Kent coast in 1950, it was in a collision with a tanker.I meet up with his brother and sisters plus family every 12th of January in Chatham, Kent for the memorial service which is held every year.He is buried at Edmonton cementry, North London.
Its strange how life deals you a bad card as he received the DSM for his action with U-Boat 1024 on 12th April 1945, came out of the Navy and could not settle into civvy life, went back into the Navy and lost his life leaving a wife Jessie and two children.
I will speak to his sisters Vi and Doll over the weekend and i think they will be very interested that Bill had a mate (they may have met him, they lived in flats in Brockley, South London)
Please keep in touch,
Kind Regards,
Ron.
nice to receive your message, sorry it took so long to reply !!!if your dad was anything like Bill(hearing some of the stories from the older members of my family) they must have had a great time together !! Sadly Bill died on submarine HMS Truculent whilst on trials off the Kent coast in 1950, it was in a collision with a tanker.I meet up with his brother and sisters plus family every 12th of January in Chatham, Kent for the memorial service which is held every year.He is buried at Edmonton cementry, North London.
Its strange how life deals you a bad card as he received the DSM for his action with U-Boat 1024 on 12th April 1945, came out of the Navy and could not settle into civvy life, went back into the Navy and lost his life leaving a wife Jessie and two children.
I will speak to his sisters Vi and Doll over the weekend and i think they will be very interested that Bill had a mate (they may have met him, they lived in flats in Brockley, South London)
Please keep in touch,
Kind Regards,
Ron.