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HMS Royal Arthur
HMS Royal Arthur at Ingoldmells near Skegness was a training centre for new recruits joining the Royal Navy. Before the war HMS Royal Arthur had been a Butlins holiday camp and after the war the site reverted back, HMS Royal Arthur was then moved to Corsham in Wiltshire.
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Tel. John James Harrison HMS Dundonald (d.6th June 1944) My Uncle John James Harrison, was in class 201 of at Royal Arthur. I believe
it would have been taken in 1941 but I do not have a precise date. He was killed on D-Day and is buried just outside Caen in France.
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Claison Meredith Class 220 HMS Royal Arthur I attach a photograph in my possession of Class 220, HMS Royal Arthur, taken during WW2.
It came to me via a relative who knew the mother of one of the men photographed. He is Claison Meredith, back row, 5th from the left. He survived the war and was later an Anglican vicar (in Weston-Super-Mare at one time I believe). Originally he was from Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales.
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Raymond Charles Bath HMS Royal Arthur HMS Lockleven I am looking for information on my grandfather and the people he spent his time with during his training. His name is Raymond Charles Bath. He was at HMS Royal Arthur from 4th July 1940 until sometime in January 1941. His first ship was HMS Lockleven. This ship was apparently based in Grimsby and was attacked in Bridlington.
My Grandad was a Telegraphist and I think his class number whilst at HMS Royal Arthur was W28.
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Percy William White HMS Royal Arthur My grandfather, Percy William White (born in 1913 in Sherborne, Dorset), trained at HMS Royal Arthur at Skegness. Unfortunately he passed away before my sister and I were born, so I never got to hear any of his wartime memories. My mother and grandmother never spoke much about him as his death caused my mother (then only 16) to have a nervous breakdown. From the odd snippets of information we gathered from our mother and grandmother before their deaths, my sister and I believe Percy's death was suicide - possibly a result of Post Traumatic Stress?
I would be very grateful if anyone can provide me with any information about him, his training, or where he was stationed during WWII, as this could help my sister and I to get to know the grandfather we never met
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Jennie Roe My mother, Jennie Roe, was posted to HMS Royal Arthur for the duration of the war, first at Skegness then Corsham. She died on the 20.09.07 and among her paper work we have found The Souvenir Programme for the GRAND VICTORY BALL on the 7.06.1946. It has been signed by Janet, Joy Barber, Doreen, Bobbie, Connie Cockroach and Ethel. Are any of you still around and do any of you remember Jennie Roe?
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Sea. Alfred Pemberton HMS Royal Arthur Alfred Pemberton joined HMS Royal Arthur on 30th of July 1941.
He went to Glasgow in January 1942 for a 12 week course.
He left Chatham on 17th of June 17th 1942, left UK on 21st of June 1942, and arrived Gibraltar on 28th of June 1942 and was stationed inside the Rock.
Eventually he moved to Caserta in Italy, which he left on 8th of January 1945, and arrived back in the UK on 27th of January 1945.
For the last few months of the war he was stationed at the Admiralty in London.
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Able Sea. Raymond Snape HMS Glendower Ray Snape volunteered in March 1944 and trained at HMS Royal Arthur then transferred to HMS Glendower transferring to HMS Collingwood in June 1944.
He was an Able Seaman but I have very little information other than he was on 11 ships up to 1947.
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CPO. William Alfred Bishop HMS Royal Arthur (d.29th Apr 1941) Just found out the husband of a cousin, William A Bishop, was killed in WW2, in March 1941 and is shown as a casualty of war on CWGC site.
His ship was the HMS Royal Arthur, but I have no idea how he died - yet!
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Stkr. Alfred Frederick Mudd HMS Cabot My Father Bert Mudd served in the Royal Navy from the 3rd of Novemver 1942 to his release on 24th Oct 1946.
He was a stoker on a variety of ships including HMS Royal Arthur, HMS Cabot, the HMS Cleopatra, HMS Pembroke and finally HMS Lochinvar.
As of today, he is a 97 year old veteran living in his own house in London.
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Stkr. Harold Langdown HMS Europa My Dad Harold Langdown, served at HMS Royal Arthur from 3rd of June 1940 until 9th of July 1940 then going on to HMS Europa and serving on a total of eight ships. Returning on some ships several times.
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Able Sea. Edward James Smith HMS Dragon My Father, Edward Smith trained on H.M.S Arthur before joining his first ship as a Signalman. We know his last ship was the H.M.S. Dragon.
We know he was in the battle of Java where he was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese.
We are just at the beginning of this journey and hope to fill in a lot of gaps as we go so his grandchildren and great grandchildren will get to know about this wonderful man.
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Ord.Sea. Alfred Allcock HMS Royal Arthur My dad, Alfred Allcock, spent time at HMS Royal Arthur upon joining the Royal Navy on the 28th of December 1939.
He was transferred to HMS Drake for further training on the 7th of February 1940.
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James Harold Prichard HMS Royal Arthur I don't have many details on my grandfather, James Prichard other than a few pictures. One is of him in the Class 228 at HMS Royal Arthur.
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Ronald Wilfred Leonard Harbord HMCS Kamloops My grandfather, Ronald Harbord passed out of HMS Royal Arthur in Class 136 around 6th August 1942, the date written by him on the back of his class photo, along with a full row-by-Row list of surnames of his class. He served as a P.O. Radar Technician on HMCS Kamloops K176 until 1945, where he finished as C.P.O. in Portsmouth (we think). Kamloops was a Canadian corvette serving in the Battle of the Atlantic on escort duties protecting the merchant convoys. The ship was also used for the manoeuvring scenes in the wartime film K225.
We have his HMS Royal Arthur handbook and cap ribbon, but little else about his time there.
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Sub.Lt. Gerald Ellis Davies MID. HMS King Alfred Gerald Davies served in HMS Royal Arthur, Wellesley, Drake, Lanka, Sheba, Drake IV and King Alfred. He was twice Mentioned in Despatches.
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