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Gnr. Albert Edward Waters
Royal Navy H.M.S Renown
Albert Waters was my father.
I heard many stories as a kid. After the war he jumped ship in Australia and changed his name to Patric Shamous O'Sullivan, and managed big cattle properties and loved to fight. He was a boxer in the navy and told the story of nearly being court marshalled for shooting a German Submarine Captain on a boarding party who he let go below to get photos of his family and turned on Dad with a machine gun. Dad said he shot him with 2 45 pistols.
He also said he served on submarines for a time and on Gibraltar.
He was one of 3 or 4 to escape from a depth charged submarine out the torpedo tube.
He did his training on the Tall ships around 1936-7 as he signed up before the war. He said he was on the ship that the Japanese signed the surrender on in the Harbour. On the day he said the sky was full of hundreds of American aircraft as a show of force to the Japanese.
He was on that ship because his ship had been cut in half by an American ship which zigged when it should have zagged. He said the ship he was on was on escort duty. Only a few survived this
In Australia after the war he often helped the Police break up rampaging Aboriginal gangs. I have been told this from the police direct in the outback.