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Those known to have sailed in HMS Hood during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Brewin Frank. Able Sea. (d.17th December 1940)
- Clark DSM. Robert. A/PO.
- Crunden Ronald Allenby. Able Sea. (d.17th Dec 1940)
- Elliot John George. PO.Sto. (d.24th May 1941)
- Evans James Samuel. PO.Swrt.
- Laws Albert Edward. Ch.Stkr (d.24th May 1941)
- Mills Walter George. Chief Yeoman of Signals. (d.5th Dec 2001)
- Norris Thomas Francis. Stkr./2 (d.24th May 1941)
- Parry Thomas Raymond .
- Pass Ernest. Stkr1.
- Powley Herbert William. Ch.ERA. (d.24th May 1941)
- Price Percival Thomas. PO.
- Reynolds Albert William. Stkr1.
- Scott James. Ldg.Stkr. (d.24th May 1941)
- Smith Richard Rothwell. PO.
- Spratt Thomas Plimmer. Able Seaman (d.17 Dec 1940)
- Suter Frank Cecil.
- Ward Joseph John. Ord.Tel. (d.21st May 1941)
- Younger Albert. Marine. (d.24th May 1941)
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Thomas Raymond Parry My father served in the Royal Marines during the Second World War. He was Thomas Raymond Parry. He travelled on the SS Anselm and told me the story of the lowering of Padre Pugh into the hold. He was also aboard 'The Hood'.
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PO. Richard Rothwell Smith HMS Cairo Dad, Richard Smith joined the Royal Navy at HMS St Vincent in 1935 at the age of 15 and a half, he served for 15 years. He was a PTI.
His ships were:
HMS Ramilies,
HMS Iron Duke, HMS Hood, HMS London, HMS Coventry, HMS Cairo, HMS Montclare
and HMS Glasgow.
He was on HMS Cairo at the time she was torpedoed while on Operation Pedestal
He died in 1996.
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Ord.Tel. Joseph John Ward HMS Hood (d.21st May 1941) My uncle, Joseph Ward was born in 1922. A coal miner by occupation he was only 17 when he enlisted into the Royal Navy on 13th of November 1939 and was assigned to HMS Victory 1, a stone frigate.
After his training he was drafted on to HMS Hood in September 1940 as and Ordinary Telegraphist.
He died when HMS Hood was blown up by the Bismark at the Battle of Denmark Strait.
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Frank Cecil Suter HMS Revenge My Grandfather Frank Suter was responsible for communicating the position of targets to the gunners.
Originally some years earlier he was assigned to HMS Hood, but fortunately orders were changed and he was enlisted on to HMS Revenge.
He was always known to me as Cecil, but he was officially Frank and his best mate was Tim who also sailed on HMS Revenge.
Grandad didn't talk much about the war, I think it was painful for him to recall the losses and the awful things that took place. He was a gentle man, but proud and strong. He talked or how the men would on occasion swim in the ocean for what ever reason, he with his eyes open and he believes the oil from ships and destruction caused his Glaucoma, which permanently blinded him from an early age.
Grandad survived the war, lived a good and honest life upon his retirement and died as a result of poor nursing care in a nursing home from septicaemia as a result of poor catheter care. He was in his nineties , but still had all his marbles. He was an incredible man.
A picture of HMS Revenge always hung above his bed.
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A/PO. Robert "Nobby" Clark DSM. HMS Sirius My father, Robert Clark joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor in 1936 when he signed up for 12 years. He was an Anti Aircraft gunner using multi-barrel Pom Pom guns.
Dad served on a number of different ships including HMS Hood when WW2 broke out. He served on HMS Oribi during Operation Archery on the raid on Norway where he was awarded the DSM. He joined HMS Sirius in May 1942 and served in the Mediterranean for the next 2 years and left HMS Sirius after D-day. He was a surviving AA bridge gunner during the bombing late in 1943.
He then next served on HMS Belfast for the two year voyage to the Far East from February 1945 to December 1947.
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Stkr1. Ernest Pass HMS Hood Ernie Pass was a very lucky man.
Only two to three days before the tragic loss of HMS Hood he luckily for him was struck down with an appendicitis.
He was assigned the tragic ship only few days before.
God bless all those who lost their lives.
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Chief Yeoman of Signals. Walter George Mills HMS Hood (d.5th Dec 2001) My father, Walter Mills joined the Royal Navy at a very young age.
He served on a number of ships including HMS Hood before she was sunk.
He was on the HMS Guillemot escorting convoys on the Arctic runs to Archangel in Russia. The Guillemot was commanded by Nicholas Montserrat for a period when my father was aboard. It was his belief that he was mentioned in The Cruel Sea, Monserrat's best seller.
I hope this may be of some interest as the Navy was always his first love.
He died aged 90 years in December 2001 having been born in Plymouth on 11th of October 1911.
He was one of 11 children and his father was also in the navy from a very young age.
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PO. Percival Thomas Price HMS Pozarica Percy Price was my godfather and served on Pozarica for two years, including Convoy PQ17. His Naval career has also been documented in his IWM Sound Archive interviews.
He sadly passed away in 2007 and we miss him still. We remember him as a gentleman who had a long marriage to Margaret; a long career with London Transport after his RN service and as proud foster parents to several Barnados'children.
Percy's own recollections of Pozarica still make us think, especially his time serving on the Arctic Convoys, a quiet man sent with his crew into a form of Hades. He taught our family to sail, mainly at Wimbledon Park Lake and Lancing Sailing Club in Sussex, complete with RN terminology and colourful language as part of the whole experience. Percy's long-lost secret was that he possessed (and could play too) an old-fashioned One-man Band, with Bass drum, cymbals on his knees, harmonica and several other instruments. A Price family gathering was never a dull affair.
Percy helped his fellow Pozarica ship-mate Godfrey Winn with his post-War account of the whole situation, entitled PQ17 (written in the 1950s). We have a copy somewhere at home, with a haunting photo of Percy in the midst of a raging sea and sheets of ice on the heaving deck with icicles hanging from every part of the ship. God only knows how these brave men survived these situations, with the proverbial Swords of Damocles of the Luftwaffe and U-Boats to contend with as well as the savage weather.
He also served on HMS Hood between 1936-38, before his draft to other ships. My parents became Hood Association members for over 20 years. We admire the bravery of these men and the seeming mad sacrifice of over 3,000 sailors on both Hood and Bismarck during the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1942.
My father, Michael, read the eulogy for Percy at his funeral and was the most nervous man in the chapel. Everyone laughed at my father's recollections and I know that Mike wanted to give his old friend a proper send-off. He did just that! Thank you, Percy. You won't be forgotten easily, my friend.
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Ch.ERA. Herbert William Powley HMS Hood (d.24th May 1941)  Herbert Powley was born on 2nd December 1900 in Eastleigh, Hampshire, the son of William Charles Powley and Bessie nee Phippen. His father was a coach finisher on the railways. His father died when Herbert was only four. Soon thereafter, Herbert moved to Exeter with his mother and two sisters, and he later attended Hele's Grammar School in the city.
Herbert signed up for the Royal Navy on his eighteenth birthday, soon after the end of the First World War. He was a boy artificer. His first assignment was on HMS Indus, which was the Engine Room Artificer's Training establishment commissioned in 1904.
Soon after his 25th birthday, he was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy. First, he was assigned to HMA London until 17th December 1925, then served on Cerberus (18th December 1925 to 10th March 1926), Geranium (11th March 1926 to 9th May 1927 and Penguin (10th May 1927 to 28th January 1928).
HMAS Cerberus was the Royal Australian Navy's primary training establishment, located adjacent to Crib Point on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, Victoria.
In 1927 whilst in Australia he married Marion Broadhead, a worsted mender, who had travelled to Australia from Leeds, Yorkshire, to join her sister, Alice. Herbert was friends with a fellow secondee, Herbert Broadhead, Marion's brother.
From 1934 until 1939, Herbert was based in Malta, and served on HMS Hood. Herbert served as president of the Engine Room Articifers Club in Malta and was presented with a silver tea service in recognition. The family moved back to England in 1939 and lived in Headingley, Leeds. The outbreak of the Second World War meant that Herbert did not retire when he became 40, and he died when HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck at the Battle of Denmark Strait.
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PO.Swrt. James Samuel Evans HMS Hood My grandfather, James Samuel Evans, served on HMS Greenwich from 17 September 1935 to 7 September 1936, before being posted to HMS Hood.
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Stkr1. Albert William Reynolds HMS Drake My dad, Albert Reynolds, was a humble man and very proud to have served in the Royal Navy. He used to tell us stories that happened while serving our great country - matelots on tour. He is sadly missed but never forgotten.
I am trying to find more information on where he served and what service medals he was awarded. If you have any information please contact me.
The day I came home and said that I have signed up and joined the military, he was so proud. Then I said, not the Navy, dad, The Royal Green Jackets. His reply was "bog trotter" but he was still very proud of me.
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Able Sea. Frank Brewin HMS Acheron (d.17th December 1940) My uncle Frank Brewin was an able seaman aboard HMS Acheron. He was 21 years old when she went down in 1940. He had been transferred from the HMS Hood.
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Marine. Albert Younger HMS Hood (d.24th May 1941) Albert Younger died aged 19, he was the son of late John G. N. Younger and Lilian Younger of Jarrow. He had joined HMS Hood in February 1940. Albert is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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Ldg.Stkr. James Scott HMS Hood (d.24th May 1941) James Scott, son of James and Hattie Scott, was born on 1st September 1897 in Morpeth, Northumberland. He was the husband of Nellie Scott. He died on 24th May 1941 after the Hood was hit by German shells during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. He is commemorated at Portsmouth Naval Memorial. He is also commemorated at Hood Chapel, Church of St John the Baptist, Boldre, Hampshire, and on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance to Jarrow Town Hall.
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