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Stwd. Neil Campbell Gillespie
Royal Navy HMS Glory
from:158 Gallowhill Road, Paisley
Neil C Gillespie served on HMS Victory from 7th January, 1942 until 8th April, 1942 after two months of training at the shore based HMS Glendower in North Wales.
He then served on HMS Nelson until 8th January, 1944, returning to HMS Victory on 9th January, remaining on the crew until 28th July, 1944.
He had two more spells of duty on the Victory : 9/11/44-21/2/45 and 31/1/46-22/7/46.
He left the service at the end of the last mentioned spell of duty above with a Class A release.
In the interim periods between these spells of service above, he saw service as follows:-
29/7/44-8/11/44 at HMS Odyssey, a shore based training posting in what was the Collingwood Hotel in Ilfracombe in peacetime.
22/2/45-30/1/46 on board HMS Glory an Aircraft Carrier. It was on board HMS Glory that the Japanese forces surrendered while the carrier was riding in the St George's channel between New Britain and New Ireland.
After he returned to civilian life and his wife Margaret, Neil spent the rest of his life looking after his family: Alexander, Jean, Neil, Margaret and Iain, and worked in management in the meat trade and in industry in King Aircraft. Sadly he died quite young in 1962 at the age of 40.