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HMS Prince of Wales
17th Sep 1941 Convoy
10th Dec 1941 HMS Prince of Wales lost HMS Prince of Wales sank following attacks by Japanese military aircraft off Kuantan, Malaya on 10th December 1941.
10th Dec 1941 HMS Prince of Wales lost
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Those known to have sailed in HMS Prince of Wales during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Broad Gerald Walter John. Gnr.
- Edwards George Henry. Stk2. (d.10th Dec 1941)
- Lobb George Frederick Edgar. PO.
- Miroy Neville A..
- Weaving Ernest Edward. Chief Stokr.
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Records of HMS Prince of Wales from other sources.
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Neville A. Miroy HMS Afrikander I am working on a transcription project of the Library of Virginia (USA) where there is a WW2 scrapbook of Neville A. Miroy who served in the RN as an enlisted man and was possibly promoted. He served on a number of ships including HMS Prince of Wales. The last page is devoted to HMS Afrikander, and pasted to the page is what I assume is his uniform cap ribbon bearing that name.
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Chief Stokr. Ernest Edward Weaving HMS Europa Ernest Weaving served with the Royal Navy aboard HMS Drake, HMS Europa and HMS Prince of Wales in WW2. I remember snippets of conversations when I spent summer holidays at the top of the village with him. He was my father figure after my father was taken ill in the early sixties and died when I was under 14.
Ernest's record shows him as a boy sailor in WW1 then re-enlisting on 2nd of September 1940. He served in three other Navy's, presumably between the wars, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian!
His first posting was HMS Drake 2, moving on to HMS Europa 19th of September 1940, back to Drake 2 6th of November 1940 then on to the HMS Prince of Wales between 10th of January 1941 and 7th of July 1941, returning to Drake 2 on 17th of July 1941, before being rated PUNS on 24th of September 1941.
I now realise why the film of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse upset him so much. He would never explain, but, whatever his injury was probably saved his life!
He led a long, happy and eventful life, eventually dying from heart failure in January 1983, having refused to spoil the family Christmas, on the day my wife was confirmed pregnant with Lisa, our older daughter.
A chip off the old block having worked with Harpoon missiles for the Navy, the RAF's cruise missile Stormshadow and the Trident Successor programme, at the age of 35, she now has responsibility for the maintenance of all trains.
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PO. George Frederick Edgar Lobb HMS Lanka George Lobb served in HMS Lanka Jan 1942 to Feb 1944.
He was a survivor of sinking of HMS Prince of Wales in which he served Feb 1941 to Dec 1941.
He had joined up as a boy sailor in May 1911 and was discharged in Aug 1946.
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Gnr. Gerald Walter John Broad S2 Turret HMS Prince of Wales Gerald Broad served in S2 Turret on HMS Prince of Wales.
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Stk2. George Henry Edwards HMS Prince of Wales (d.10th Dec 1941) George Henry Edwards died aged 26 in the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, he was the son of Jim and Rose Edwards and husband of Sylvia Susannah Edwards of Jarrow.
George is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
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