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September 2006

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Jeffrey, Robert, (Nick), Carter. <sidon55@hotmail.com>
06/06/1950 - P/SSX889778 - 74/75 Class - 6 Mess - Blake - Pinjarra, Western Australia, Australia.
Old Ships/Comments:- HMS Indefatigable, then to Med in HMS Cleopatra transferred to HMS Dieppe, then back home to HMS Vernon (U.C.training) then to HMS Dolphin. Joined HMS/M Sleuth, HMS/M Sidon(Sunk alongside depot ship 16/6/55 Survivor Crew), HMS/M Scorcher back to HMS Dolphin then out to Australia. Joined HMS/M Telemachus, HMS/M Thorough and HMS/M Aurochs then discharged in Australia. Actively involved with the Scouting movement. Ex District Commissioner. Returned to the UK for the HM Submarine Sidon Memorial Ceremony. A good friend of the Association and avid supporter of the website and forum.

Committee Meeting

The next meeting of the Committee will be held at Leicester Senior Service Club at 1415 for 1430 Sunday, 1/10/06.
All are welcome to attend but please give an indication to me in good time so that the ladies of Leicester Division can prepare refreshments.
Directions can be supplied by email if members contact me.
Tony <thipthorpe@btconnect.com>
Chairman & A/Sec

272/282 Classes - 7 May 1957

Greetings wherever you are classes 272/282 7 May 1957 POTEL Snow and CRS Jackson (to whom I gave the Mumps) and of course, the Rodney lot, POTEL Murphy? where are you Pomphrey? Reunion 2007 will be our fiftieth year certificate presentations and we would be well chuffed if as many of you as possible could attend.
Those attending so far (we hope!)
Alan Batho
Benfield
(Ray) Hussey
(Nipper) Grant (check fore aft main!)
Taylor (Jerry, Buck, etc)
Graham Yates (class leader/Po Boy(Lovely coligraffy??)
And thats all I have come up with at mo, Drac Bower is in Aussie
Alan Batho can't find Worboys.
I have a great photograph of us reprobates in the airing room if you would like one.
God Bless and get there!
Still living
Buck/Jerry/Tony Taylor <ae.taylor3@ntlworld.com>

Search for Signalmen

(Edinburgh Evening News 21/09/2006)

I am hoping to organise a reunion in 2007 after 50 years for old boys aged 15 who joined HMS Ganges on October 8, 1957,
43 Mess, Collingwood Division, Class 361/352 signalmen/radio operators, especially Jimmy Adams and (unknown) McKinnon.
If anyone can help me in my search please contact me on 01780 754291.
John Curtis
Doughty Street,
Stamford,
Lincolnshire.

Crossed The Bar

Clifford John (Cliff) Wright P/SSX611232
1930 - 2006
Husband of Pat. Father to Andy, Nigel, Simon and Amanda. Grandfather to Luke, Carrie, Oliver and Ben.
Clifford John Wright of Bedford Bedfordshire died on Augus 28, 2006 at the age of 75. The cause of death being Mesothelioma caused by exposure to the asbestos fibre used on Royal Navy ships during the time of his service.
Cliff was born October 1930, in Cliffton Bedfordshire. Together with his 3 brothers Ken, Rupe and Bob and his sister Pam the family lived in Bedford where Cliff attended Queen's Park School until 1945 when at the age of 15 he entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Sailor at H.M.S. GANGES, a shore training establishment for boy entrants into the Royal Navy on Shotley Peninsula, Suffolk.
Cliff served 3½ years as a Boy and Ordinary Seaman, 4½ years as an Able Seaman and 1½ years as a Leading Seaman. He and Pat were married in 1952, he left the Navy in the September of 1955 at the age of 25, having passed but not been made up to Petty Officer. He had served aboard the destroyer HMS Wrangler, the aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance before he saw active service during the Korean war aboard the cruiser HMS Ceylon, his last commission being the destroyer HMS Scorpion.
Once discharged, his naval training on RADAR helped him into the electronics industry, working for TRA in Ampthill and moving to manage NAPPS in Luton. Cliff turned self-employed setting up shop in Kempston in 1965 bringing his 3 sons into the business from which he himself retired in 1988 at the age of 57.
Very active within the community, Cliff was twice president of the Kempston Chamber of Trade and a founder member of Kempston Rotary. An avid walker, he enjoyed regular trips to North Wales and visited the Himalayan foothills during the 1980's. An accomplished water colourist, his love of painting led him to become a very active member of the Bedford Art Society.
His membership of the British Korean Veteran Association, the Ceylon Association and the Ganges Association saw him proudly visit the USA for the Dedication of the Korean Veteran's Memorial in Washington, to Korea to take part in the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of the war and, less than a month before his death, to a garden party at Buckingham Palace on behalf of the BKVA.
In October, Cliff's ashes shall be scattered in a Royal Navy ceremony at Portsmouth in October on what would have been his 76th Birthday.
He shall be sadly missed and not forgotten.
Pat and family give heartfelt thanks to the very many who sent messages of condolence and special thanks and gratitude to all those veterans who made Cliff's send off just as he would have wished it to be.
Contributions in Cliff's memory can be made to: "Papworth Hospital Charitable Foundation"
c/o Clarabut & Plumbe Funeral Directors
11 Kingsway, Bedford, Beds MK42 9BJ
Tel: 01234 354547

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