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HMS Glendower
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Those known to have sailed in HMS Glendower during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Allen Harold Leslie. AB
- Anderson Jarvis Powell.
- Berry Wiliam Henry.
- Breeze Stuart. Able.Sea.
- Cavner Richard.
- Clegg Robert Edgar. A/Able.Sea.
- Coates Albert. Ordinary Seaman
- Creaser William George. Sea.
- Davies Thomas Joseph. Able Sea
- Dearden William. Sea. (d.6th Apr 1941)
- Dicks William James. Gun layer
- Ekin Samuel. Able Sea
- Fielding Richard. Able Sea.
- Giblin Edna Hilder. Wren
- Gillespie Neil Campbell. Stwd.
- Gillespie Neil Campbell. Stwd.
- Gillespie Neil Campbell. Steward
- Hennessey John Bartholomew Lawrence.
- Hill Leonard Rowland.
- Hill Ronald Leonard.
- Horn Henry Crossley. Stwd.
- Jones Tecwyn James. Able Sea.
- Kybert Frederick Charles. Sea.
- Lewis Gordon Phillip.
- Lindsey Vera Joan. Wren
- Mackie William Wilson. Able Sea.
- Martin Frank. Gnr.
- Mason MID Donald Rex. CPO
- McNamara George.
- Mitchell Samuel Howard.
- Ormston John Henry. Ass cook
- Pardoe Leonard Thomas. AB.
- Peters Gwendoline Alice. Ldg.Wren.
- Ross Lindsay Goldie. Stkr1.
- Scanlan Thomas Aluicious.
- Schoots Dirk Antoon.
- Shell D'Arcy George. Able Sea.
- Snape Raymond. Able Sea.
- Spiers Mary Kathleen. Nursing Sister.
- Thair Robert Douglas. Ord.Sea.
- Tye William. Gnr.
- White DSM, MiD. Robert Frank Escolme. Able Sea.
- Wood Thomas William.
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Steward Neil Campbell Gillespie HMNB Portsmouth HMS Victory HMS Glendower HM Neil Gillespie first served on HMS Victory from 7/1/42 to 8/4/42 after spending two months training at a shore based establishment in North Wales, HMS Glendower, having entered the service on 18/11/41. He then served on HMS Nelson from 9/4/42 to 8/1/44. He returned to HMS Victory subsequently for three spells of duty,
9/1/44-28/7/44, 9/11/44-21/2/45 and 31/1/46-22/7/46.
The last of these three periods was his final assignment in the navy before being released class A, from the service.
The time that Neil spent on the Victory latterly was interrupted by time at HMS Odyssey from 29/7/44 until 8/11/44. In peacetime HMS Odyssey was the Collingwood Hotel in Ilfracombe in Devon. In wartime, it was apparently a centre for various types of specialist training for certain skills or assignments. Then from 22/2/45 to 30/1/46 he served on the aircraft carrier HMS Glory. On 6th September, 1945, the officers commanding the Japanese forces in the south west Pacific signed Instruments of Surrender at a ceremony on the flight deck of HMS Glory, which was in the St George's channel between New Britain and New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago close to New Guinea.
When he returned to civilian life, he lived with his wife Margaret and New born son Alexander, often known as Alistair in family circles, and later with other children Jean, Neil, Margaret and Iain. He worked with Allison the Butcher in Paisley and at King Aircraft in Hillington, Glasgow. In both cases he occupied management positions.
Although Neil served throughout the war and successfully settled to peacetime life, he sadly died in April 1962 at the age of 40.
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Stwd. Neil Campbell Gillespie HMS Glory Neil Gillespie served on HMS Glory 22nd of February 1945 until 30th of January 1946, having previously served on HMS Victory and HMS Nelson.
His initial training posting was at HMS Glendower in North Wales a shore based facility which subsequently became a Butlins Holiday Camp and later a Haven Holiday Centre.
Neil was serving on HMS Glory at the time of the surrender of the Japanese forces in the South West Pacific on 6th of September 1945. The surrender was solemnised at a signing ceremony on board HMS Glory on the flight deck.
There is footage of the ceremony shown elsewhere on the internet. Amongst Neil's papers there are photographs of the signing ceremony and a copy of the Instrument of Surrender.
Following his service on HMS Glory, Neil spent his last few months of Naval service on HMS Victory before returning to civilian life with a class A release. He returned to his family in Paisley where he lived with his wife Margaret and his baby son Alexander, usually called Alistair in the family.
Later the family included Jean, Neil, Margaret and Iain.
Neil worked with Allison the Butcher in Paisley and at King Aircraft at Hillington in Glasgow as a progress manager.
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Able Sea Thomas Joseph Davies HMS Copra From my father, Thomas Davies's Certificate of Service he was on: HMS Glendower from 9 Nov 1942 to 25th Jan 1943,
Pembroke from 26 Jan 1943 to 13 Feb 1943,
Dinosaur from 14 Feb 1943 to 31 Aug 1943,
Copra from 1 Sept 1943 to 8 Nov 1943,
Copra as Able seaman from 9 Nov 1943 to 20 Nov 1945,
Pembroke from 21 Nov 1945 to 11 Jan 1946,
Owl (Term II) from 12 Jan 1946 to 3 Feb 1946 and
Pembroke from 4 Feb 1946 to 19 Jun 1946.
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Able Sea. Robert Frank Escolme White DSM, MiD. LCT 513      LCT 513 was the Landing Craft (Tank) my Dad was on.
He joined HMS Glendower on 25th of February 1943 (aged 18) and was discharged on 27th of March 1946 (aged 21) at HMS Copra.
He kept a flag from the ship and a deactivated shell as well as some ammunition boxes which I still have. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and 'Mentioned in Dispatches'.
On 12th of July 1944 The Star newspaper reported that: "After Landing Craft (Tank) 513 had touched down on a beach of Normandy, and her cargo of troops and vehicles had gone ashore, it was discovered that a beach mine was caught in the landing ramp and could not be dislodged. Although it hadn't exploded it was liable to do so as soon as anything touched the detonator". This was said by D S Hawkey, RNVR, the Commanding Officer. His first lieutenant, Sub-Lieut B D Davis, RNVR, of Norbury, wanted to go forward and cut it off "but I didn't think that was very advisable". The ship came all the way back across the channel with the mine stuck in the bows. Then D S Hawkey decided they couldn't enter the harbour with it still there, "so we tried to get rid of it. We rigged a wire from the ramp to the capstan, with the idea of shaking the mine loose as we ran the ramp into the swell. I cleared the upper deck, and the party needed for working the capstan got under cover. I was standing on the bridge, keeping well down, and giving orders to the capstan crew through the loud-hailer. Unfortunately, we heaved in a bit too hard, and instead of shaking the mine loose we pulled it inboard"! However, by a stoke of luck it fell sideways and the detonator was knocked off without exploding the mine. No time was wasted in throwing the mine over the side."
Dad rarely spoke about the war but he did see and experience some horrible sights including standing at an anti-aircraft gun with his friend one moment, and the next seeing his friend blown up.
One of the few times I ever saw my father cry was whilst he was watching the Remembrance Service at Royal Albert Hall on TV and remembering his friends who died.
He revisited Normandy in 1990 and movingly recalled the scenes he witnessed there. He died in 1991.
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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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Nursing Sister. Mary Kathleen Spiers HMS Glendower Mary Spiers was a SRN at Middlesex Hospital and began her training in late Summer 1940. Her training included time with the war blinded at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. In May 1944 she was sent with other nurses to establish a Casualty Clearing Station in Portsmouth. The Clearing Station became operational on D-Day.
She recalled that British casualties had hand-written histories; the American had typed notes - written by clerks initially in shell holes on Omaha beach! Later she was seconded to the Navy, and eventually became permanent rather than wartime with QARNNS. She was briefly at HMS Glendower training establishment, where the VE day gun salute was achieved by tossing thunderflashes into metal dustbins at the correct intervals. She believes the gunnery officer that day was Lt RN Prince Philip.
She was in the Naval Hospital in Malta in 1946 or 47 and was discharged from QARNNS upon her marriage to Surgeon Lt (Dentist) John Miller in May 1948.
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Able Sea Samuel Ekin HMS Diadem On his military papers, Samuel Ekin served on board:
HMS Glendower 01.09.1941 to 07.11.1941
HMS Wellesley 08.11.1941 to 05.12.1941
HMS President III 06.12.1941 to 04.05.1945
HMS Victory 05.07.1945 to 19.10.1945 and
HMS Diadem 20.10.1945 to 06.04.1946. He was on the guns and was torpedoed 3 times and twice on St Patrick’s day.
He died aged 80 and never talked very much about his service.
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Able Sea. Tecwyn James Jones HMS Dauntless On his service record it states Tecwyn Jones was on HMS Victory from 29/07/1943 to 04/11/1943, he started of at Glendower a Butlins Holiday Camp on 07/02/1941 to 04/07/1941, and then moved on to the President 111 on 15/07/1941 to May 1943, and then on to Afrikander 0/05/1943 to 25/05/1943, and then onto HMS Dauntless 26/05/1943 to 21/07/1943, and then on to Victory dates as above, the next ship he went on we can not read the name on his service record properly but it starts with a S or G? 04/11/1943 TO 22/02/1944, and then onto Caroline (HMS Inman) 23/02/1944 to 31/08/1944, the next ship is also difficult to read it looks like Ferret 01/09/1944 to 26/07/1945, then back on to HMS Victory 27/07/1945 to 26/09/1945, and his final ship HMS Raven 27/09/1945 to 06/02/1946 when we assume he was demobbed.
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Stwd. Neil Campbell Gillespie HMS Glory 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.
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A/Able.Sea. Robert Edgar Clegg HMS Glendower I have a long list of ships that my father, Robert Clegg served on as a gunner during WW2. He trained in HMS Glendower to 3rd of August 1942.
All the ships he served on were only for a short duration- convoys I believe but I would love to find out more.
SS Empire Bronze;
- SS Tobruk;
- HMS Cochrane;
- SS Lakeland;
- SS Marlwood;
- SS Zeeland;
- SS Omega;
- SS Scythia;
- SS New Crombia;
- SS Queen Mary;
- SS Samviana;
- HMCS Stadacona;
There must be many who were in the same position.
He survived the war, married and lived in Uley, Gloucestershire
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AB Harold Leslie Allen HMS Glendower My father, Harold, served on the Glendower as Ordinary Seaman from 9th December 1941 to 20th January 1942
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Thomas William Wood HMS Glendower Thomas Wood trained at HMS Glendower. I have only just begun to look into my Dad’s service. He died 15 years ago.
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Ronald Leonard Hill HMS Eggesford Ronald Hill served in the Royal Navy in HMS Glendower and HMS Eggesford.
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