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CPO. Henry Chesney

Royal Navy HMS Saker Fleet Air Arm

from:Gillingham, Kent

Harry Chesney joined the Royal Navy as a shipwright apprentice in 1914. Around 1939 now a CPO he transferred to the Fleet Air Arm. In 1943 he sailed to the USA on an almost empty Queen Mary and did not know until he arrived that Winston Churchill had been aboard travelling for a meeting with Roosevelt.

Harry spent the next two years at Roosevelt Field, New York and travelled home on an almost empty Queen Elizabeth. He was demobbed in 1946 but carried on as a civilian writer at a base near Abingdon. When he finally returned home to Gillingham he returned "to his tools" as a shipwright in RN Dockyard Chatham where he worked on submarine conversions.



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