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HMS Pozarica
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Those known to have sailed in HMS Pozarica during the Second World War 1939-1945. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
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Want to know more about HMS Pozarica? There are:-1 items tagged HMS Pozarica available in our Library
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Alexander Scott HMS Pozarica My Grandfather Alexander Scott served on HMS Pozarica.
Sandy was the youngest serving engineer, and had been sunk four times before going on the PQ17 run and received a mention from Godfrey Winn in his book.
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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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Seaman Alan William "Spud" Tatham HMS Pozarica My father Alan Tatham only served one year on HMS Pozarica before he transferred to HMS Collingwood as an instructor. My Father was transferred to HMS Formidable early in 1944 from HMS Collingwood as a leading seaman and saw extensive action with the Pacific Task Force. He never spoke about the horrors he witnessed but after his demise in 1989 l found a secret diary written in dark corners that tells of those awful times, the Diary took me six months to decipher the hurried scribble and I have given it in perpetuity along with the transcription and photographs to the Royal Navy Museum at Portsmouth who said that a diary such as his was very rare. The Diary is accessible to read at the Museum on request.
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Sea. Leonard Lawrence HMS Pozarica Leonard Lawrence, my grandfather, was ship's cook on HMS Pozarica from 18th February 1941 to 3rd July 1942, he left her immediately after she had escorted convoy PQ17.
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Able Sea. Brinley Card HMS Pozarica (d.29th Jan 1943) We believe Brin Card died when his ship was torpedoed of the coast of Italy. I was five years old when it happened and had a younger sister.
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PO Jack Hubert Scott HMS. Halsted My father, Jack Scott was serving on HMS Halsted when she was torpedoed on the 11th June 1944. He was thrown into the air when the explosion happened and landed back on deck with severe injuries to his back. Somehow, he was attended to and survived this ordeal. At the time, he had been married for just 40 days and one can only guess what affect this had on my parent's relationship, although I am reliably informed that I was conceived just two months later. I still have the Hurt Certificate subsequently issued by the Royal Navy regarding this injury. Hurt or not, nothing was going to stop this officer being up to the job.
His previous ship had been HMS Pozarica and he lost five old ship mates
when 'Y' Gun took a direct hit in January 1943. His memories of his 13 mates on the Pozy always stayed close to him as I have a photograph of all 14 of them on the back of which they have all signed their names and my father thoughtfully left a separate little card to identify them all tucked inside a copy of Godfrey Winn's book PQ17. Seems I am fortunate to ever have arrived.
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