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Those known to have sailed in HMS Warspite during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Arnold Thomas Charles. Mar. (d.23rd May 1941)
- Bender Harold Thomas.
- Bilbe Charles Victor Lenard.
- Bird Henry John.
- Bishop Allen Harold.
- Blake George Douglas. Able Sea.
- Braithwaite Stanley. Stkr1.
- Dutton Dennis William. Decoder
- Greenwood Thomas. L.Sea.
- Harding Albert Edward. Cmmd.Boatswain. (d.22nd May 1941)
- Harris George Edward Joseph . Gnr.
- Heath Joseph. L/Sea.
- Higgins Stanley Augustus. Stokr.
- Hopkins Samuel Edward. Able Sea (d.2nd August 1943)
- Hughes DSM Roderick Ivor. CPO.
- Hull Maurice. Able Sea.
- Knight Vincent.
- McCarten Edward. Ord.Sea.
- Mestern Warwick Fredrick Orton.
- Nunn Frederick Theodore. Gnr. (d.22nd May 1941)
- Pharoah DSM. George Charles Matthias. CPO Gnr.
- Phillips Cyril Claude. Leading Stoker.
- Philpott Donald James. L.Sea.
- Pike William Jordan. Able Sea. (d.15th Nov 1942)
- Riddle Andrew. Sea.
- Rogers George Edward. Able Sea
- Routley John Richard. CPO.
- Sheridan Philip. (d.1941)
- Shimmons Eric Bert. Pte.
- Skipper Charles Thomas. Stoker
- Sore Charles H.. (d.22nd May 1941)
- Walsham John Scarlett Warren.
- Ware Henry Sydney. PO.
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Want to know more about HMS Warspite? There are:22 items tagged HMS Warspite available in our Library
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Allen Harold Bishop HMS Warspite My dad, Allen Bishop served on the Warspite. Does anyone recall him?
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Stokr. Stanley Augustus Higgins HMS Dorsetshire     After completing his basic training following his call up on 27th of February 1940, Stanley Higgins was posted to HMS Dorsetshire on 5th of June 1940 at Devonport, where she was completing a refit.
During the Bismarck action, Stanley was off watch from the boiler rooms, and was at his action station in a damage control party. Part way through the action he was allowed to go "up top" to see what was happening, and witnessed the smoke shrouded wreck of Bismarck before its sinking.
After being stood down from action stations, all available hands were called to "man the sides" and assist in the rescue of Bismarck survivors. Stanley took part and after assisting in the rescues, one particular survivor, called Friedrich Junghans, gave Stanley his "erkennungsmarke" or ID tag. It is currently on display in the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.
Eleven months later, at the time of the Dorsetshire's own sinking, Stanley was again off-watch and again called to action stations, at this time he was a leader of a damage control party up near the Dorsetshire's bows adjacent to the ships paint locker. Very shortly after the commencement of the Japanese air attack, all comms in the ship were lost, though it was soon apparent that the Dorsetshire was receiving a heavy pounding, with the ship heeling over and quaking from the impact of the Japanese bombs.
One concussion dislodged a length of suction hose, known as an elephant's foot, which hit Stanley and he was concussed for a few seconds. On regaining his wits, and sensing that the ship was starting to list heavily, Stanley shouted for the party to get on the upper deck via a ladder leading to a hatch in the compartment roof. The first man up the ladder shouted that he couldn't unlatch the hatch dogs. Stanley used a crowbar to release the latches and the party crawled out onto the rapidly inclining bow deck. One party member, a South African, couldn't swim and went down with the ship, the rest all survived.
Stanley went on to serve on the battleships Warspite, Valiant and Malaya, and ended the war in Fremantle, Australia onboard the submarine tender, HMS Adamant.
After demobilisation, Stanley was a bus driver in Liverpool until retirement in 1984, and passed away on 4th July 2013, aged 93.
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Stkr1. Stanley Braithwaite HMS Warspite In WW2, Stan Braithwaite served on HMS Warspite as a Stoker. Whilst Warspite was in America for refit, he and a couple of pals hitchhiked to Hollywood where they met some of the film stars of the day, including Anne Sheridan. He served on the Landing Craft on D-Day.
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L.Sea. Thomas Greenwood HMS Warspite Royal Navy Tom Greenwood joined HMS Warspite on the 28th of March 1941. He was involved in the Battle of Cape Matapan, where the Italian fleet cruisers Zara, Four and Poland were sunk. He was part of the Malta convoy work and took part in the Battle of Crete, assisting the 8th Army bombardment off the North Africa Coast. The ship was attacked by Stuka Bombers off Crete and was damaged, the Warspite was taken to America for repairs.
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Gnr. George Edward Joseph "Cabby" Harris HMS Warspite My dad George E J Harris was Royal Marine gunner and was on HMS Warspite on D Day.
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Able Sea Samuel Edward Hopkins HMS Warspite (d.2nd August 1943) Samuel Hopkins served with the Royal Navy aboard HMS Warspite in WW2. He died 2nd of August 1943 aged 23 years. He is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Samuel died from an accidental explosion on board HMS Warspite
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Able Sea. George Douglas Blake HMS Warspite George Blake joined the Navy in 1935 and served up to 1950. He was an Electricians Mate Class 1 and served in,
- 12/03/35-09/01/36 HMS Ganges.
- 10/01/36- 08/02/36 HMS Pembroke
- 09/02/36-17/08/38 ?
- 18/08/36-10/11/36 HMS Pembroke
- 09/11/36-13/02/37 HMS Sussex
- 14/02/37-31/08/37 ?
- 01/09/37-20/10/37 HMS Ramillies
- 21/10/37-19/11/37 HMS Pembroke
- 20/11/37-02/07/39 HMS Sussex
- 03/07/39-25/08/39 HMS Pembroke
- 26/08/39-27/08/42 HMS Royal Sovereign
- 28/08/42-27/09/44 HMS Warspite
- 28/09/44-01/05/46 HMS Pembroke/HMS Marlborough
- 02/05/46-31/10/49 HMS London
- 01/11/49-06/02/50 HMS Pembroke
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Cmmd.Boatswain. Albert Edward Harding HMS Warspite (d.22nd May 1941) Albert Harding, Royal Navy, born 24th January 1901 in Wealdstone, Middlesex, took the King's shilling at about the age of 15 and served in the Royal Navy from that time, during WW1. Based at Chatham docks where he was acting Boatswain from 1928. He married Marion Nancy Lucy Elliott at Shamley Green, Surrey on 16th August 1930 and they had three children, Michael, Joy and Christopher.
He served on the St Cyrus, a tug that was tender to the Repulse in the Atlantic fleet in 1930, on the Boyne in fishery protection and on St Issey in 1935 in the Mediterranean fleet, all based at Chatham and with him as Boatswain. In 1939 he became Command Boatswain on HMS Pembroke and in 1940 joined HMS Warspite.
He was killed in action during the Battle of Crete at 13.32 hours on Thursday, 22nd of May 1941 by a bomb from an Me 109 while serving on the starboard 6" gun battery. He and 18 naval ratings killed in action were committed to the deep at 20.00 hours (Latitude 35 degrees 50', Longitude 22 degrees 17').
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