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Those known to have sailed in HMS Suffolk 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 Suffolk? There are:2 items tagged HMS Suffolk available in our Library
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Geoffrey W.B. Adams HMS Suffolk Geoffrey Adams was a friend of my mother's before the war, and my name is Geoff also. He led a dance band at the Jubilee Hall in Alvaston, Derby before the war and in fact formed a shipboard band during his service on HMS Suffolk. I do not have to many details, but I believe he became ill and died shortly after the war.
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Leslie Garfield Tucker HMS Suffolk My grandfather, Leslie Tucker was born in May 1924 at Plymouth, Devon, England and died in 1992 in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
Unfortunately our family doesn't have a lot of information as he was sent to the Navy from an orphanage.
What I have been able to gather is that he was on the training ship HM St George on the Isle of Man and then was on HMS Suffolk.
The records had more information to offer on his brother, Ronald Waldron Tucker, who trained at Indefatigable in Liverpool 1936 and joined Bibby line shipping company on SS Cheshire as a deck boy and bugler in 1938.
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Albert Harry "Goldy" Goldsbrough DSM & Bar HMS Penelope My father, Albert (Goldy) Goldsbrough, hated his given name & was always known, certainly in civilian life, by his Nick Name of Goldy. He joined the Navy during the mid 1930s and for a time was on HMS Suffolk in the Far East. Amongst other ships he served on was HMS Penelope, including her time in Malta and subsequent escape to Gibralter and the States. I believe that it was for actions during this time that he received his decoration. I believe he left the ship when she reached the States for her refit, if not before, following the damage she received in Malta. He may at this point have been suffering from health problems, but I believe went on to serve in other ships until the end of the war, when he was invalided out of the service. He spoke little of his service experiences, and as a young boy I took little interest in recent history. My sister was named after HMS Penelope, the sinking of which, I believe, deeply affected my father, as presumably even though he was not part of the ship's company at that time, would have known many of those killed. After the war he became a teacher, but was also involved in training at the Nigeria Marine establishment Quorra, near Lagos in the mid to late 1950s. He eventually died, following heart problems, in the early 1970s. Should anyone have further information on him I would be pleased to receive it.
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