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Question for Cathy Roberts, whilst you were at Kete did you know a tiny Met wren called Margaret,I believe her Father was a Vicar or something similar, use to keep me in hand when I was my course for one. |
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I was on Met course at Kete in 1958 and there I met Cathy Roberts. After Met course I spemt 2 1/2 years at Culdrose and then on to Yeovilton. I left the service in 1962 as a Leading Wrem. I now live in Seattle, USA |
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Eric Daniels
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I recently discovered the Cloud Observers web site which was a wonderfully revealing find. Sadly I cannot find any reference to the Kete class of May/June 1950. As a National Service rating I only served for two years and was an observer at HMS Blackcap near Warrington then finished my service on HMS Vanguard (the last of the battleships) |
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Hello I'm searching for information and people who may of served and known my grandmother miss Molly Atkin in the early 1950s I know she was at und sanderling, lossiemouth and culdrose in 1953 when she became pregnant. Any information would be greatly accepted. You can contact me at |
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Eldred, I will answer some of Ray's questions to, hopefully, ....be helpful. Anyway - herewith the info from my "mini Jane's and other sources: HMS Kenya was a Crown Colony-class cruiser. Kenya also avoided damage in air attacks by the Germans on 27–28 March. She had by now received the nickname "The Pink Lady", due to her Mountbatten Pink camouflage paint, during the commando raid against installations on Vågsøy Island off the Norwegian coast. This was attributed to her Mountbatten Pink camouflage blending in with the pink marker dye the Germans were using in their shells, preventing German spotters from distinguishing between shell splashes and the ship. The force returned to Scapa Flow in early January 1942. Kenya returned to escorting Arctic convoys between March and May 1942. On 22 March after escorting PQ12 to Murmansk Kenya was loaded with 10 tonnes of Russian bullion and took it back to Britain for safe keeping. HMS Activity was an escort carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. After the war, she was sold into merchant service as the MV Breconshire, serving for over 20 years until scrapped in 1967. Operation Pedestal (referenced in Italian sources as the Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto) was a British operation to get desperately needed supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942. Eldred, I wish you good health and hope you can find the time to enlighten us with your experiences in the Met branch, - what Met data was available at sea, how it was transmitted and received (was it coded, other than SYNOP?) did you have radio-sonde etc. |
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Mrt Clark Sir - it is a great privilege to hear from such a senior ex-Member of the Met Branch. You were 'on course' the year that I was born (1942) so I am guessing you are nearer 90 than 80 and still fully up with all these modern ways of communicating. Can you tell us all what exactly were Kenya, Activity and Pedestal - all ships? You might be inundated with requests for knowledge by various people, as mentioned in the last message from Spud. He was in the Met branch and ended up as a helicopter pilot and a Lt.Cdr I think. Of course, he is but a youngster! |
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Mr Clark – For everyone else, including the very many non members who access the site ............ |
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Eldred R W Clark
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I came across your site by sheer chance and was delighted! If you are interested I did the Met course at Greenwich from January to March 1942 and joined Kenya more or less immediately. Went to Activity after Pedestal later in that year and to C in C East Indies when Activity became too small for anything except ferrying aircraft; mostly working in the Joint Met Centre in Colombo with one operation in Emperor. In RNVR while a dental student in Liverpool and turned over when I qualified to the dental branch. Retired in 1960 on age as Surg.Lt.Cdr(D). As an aside I saw the earlier Eagle sunk and our first captain in Activity, Guy Willoughby, was the first captain of the one in the videos. I hope to join you. |
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Steve Howard
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Happy days eh Ray? |
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