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Occasional Paper 63: Malta Revisited: Wartime Memories of HMAS Vendetta’s Malta Sojourn in World War II

A.N. Other · Sep 16, 2019 ·

September 2019 We are indebted to ex Supply Assistant Gordon Hill for this wonderfully illuminating description of his wartime service in the destroyer HMAS Vendetta when based at Malta.  His ...

Malta Revisited: Wartime Memories of HMAS Vendetta’s Malta Sojourn in World War II

A.N. Other · Dec 5, 2017 ·

We are indebted to ex Supply Assistant Gordon Hill for this wonderfully illuminating description of his wartime service in the destroyer HMAS Vendetta when based at Malta. The George Cross Island ...

Instructor Captain Richard Gerard Fennessy DSC RAN

A.N. Other · Sep 24, 2014 ·

By Noel Burgess This extraordinary story concerns a country schoolmaster who mainly served through WW II in one ship in which he won the DSC and afterwards rose to become the ...

Malta Revisited

Hill, Gordon · Jun 10, 2010 ·

Memories of HMAS Vendetta in Malta in World War ll The George Cross Island Association Reunion 2004 gave me the opportunity to revisit Malta. I knew that if I put ...

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RANVR – The Forgotten Few

Wright, Ken · Dec 5, 2008 ·

When Hitler declared war on Great Britain in 1939, here in Australia, the Prime Minister Robert Menzies addressed the nation on 3 September: ‘Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty ...

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Operation Pedestal and the Tanker Ohio

Morton, Ray · Dec 10, 2004 ·

In August 1942 British Merchant Navy veteran Ray Morton was an eyewitness to one of the most celebrated Allied achievements of World War II – Operation Pedestal, or the Convoy ...

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Mediterranean Memories

Jarrett, Hugh · Jun 27, 2003 ·

Much the same as between the Wars, post WW2 saw the Royal Navy concentrated in the Mediterranean, based on Malta and Gibraltar. IN 1951 I WAS ON EXCHANGE SERVICE in ...

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Submarine Memories

Selby, Gordon · Dec 15, 2002 ·

ON 1ST JULY 1941 Lieutenant Wanklyn received his promotion to Lieutenant Commander and the Malta based submarines became the 10th Submarine Flotilla. At about the same time I was rated ...

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Operation Pedestal – 60th Anniversary

Ministry of Defence (UK) · Sep 10, 2002 ·

15th August 2002 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival in Malta of the Pedestal convoy, delivering at heavy cost the critical supplies that saved the island from having to ...

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