Gibraltar

Reg Gill and Malta Convoy "Operation Substance"

Our only problem was that our station in the convoy was about 50 metres from the battleship, Nelson, the...

Reg Gill, Malta and the Italian Fleet Surrender

Italian fleet surrender Reg saw and photographed the Italian fleet as it approached Malta to surrender, but...

Conscript Heroes: Before St Valery

Shot to pieces by a Panzer division Then it was up to St Valery sur Bresle, near Aumale, where our...

How I Lost my Front Teeth in Gibraltar

Contrary to expectations and with all guns manned until nightfall that day, we sailed the length of the...

Death on The Rock: Smallpox in WW2

His only symptom was a slight headache and his temperature was 100°F. Two days later he developed a...

Some Maritime Musings (Contin.) FIVE

We were sailing independent of convoy having lost the other accompanying ships in thick fog off Greenland...

Tales of the SEP - Special Erection Party

We also had an aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle, and some Spitfires were carried halfway to Malta and then flown...

Joe Pack, Bomber Pilot: My Escape through Belgium and France

Although most of the Canadian aircrew was commissioned, George was quite sure he could not get a commission...

Malta Convoy - Chapter 6

I recall little of the following day; food must have been brought to me, for I know that by the late...

War Year Memoirs -Part 1

In the case where six staff were required on the capital ships, the manager was made a Chief Petty Officer,...

Bill Sanderson's Wartime Experiences -Part 2 - From Training to HMS Carlisle

Some were recalled ‘barrack stanchions’ but our squad instructor: Sergeant Leversley was...

EYE WITNESS ON FIREDRAKE, GIBRALTAR BASED

The Force H consisted of the Renown, a battle cruiser, and the Ark Royal, aircraft carrier, together with...

The War C.V. of Ossie Henderson

Ossie's friend Cyril Wroe met him because he had been in the dramatic society before the war They had...

To and at Gibralter 42/43

This story records some of my recollections during WW2 I was at HMS Osprey the anti-submarine School at...

War Time Reflections of a Norwich Man

The following two years were given over to gun practice on a mobile Bofors Anti-aircraft gun and an...

Sun, Sea and Sand

At sea the war continued with the sinking of the German Battleship 'Bismark' 'The Battle of the...

Evacuation of the Gibraltarian Population

The French no longer wanted them in Morocco, the Governor of Gibraltar refused to have them back for safety...

Life On The Rock

Two trawlers, sister ships, The Lord Hogarth and the Lady Hotham had been used to patrol the Straits Of...

HMS Zulu at Tobruk

On the 17 June 1942, he was assigned to HMS Zulu based at Gibraltar. The date of the Certificate for Wounds...

Gib during the War: My Dad's War by Phil Almond

From Gib., my father was involved in the second wave of the Normandy landings travelling through France,...

Gibraltar's role in WWII

In November 1942 General Eisenhower set up his headquarters in Gibraltar prior to "Operation...

The Perils of the Gibraltar Convoy Route

At 8.00am on 27th September Captain Klemp and Mr Woodhouse, Chief Officer of the SS Lapwing, decided that...

EYE WITNESS ON FIREDRAKE, MALTA CONVOY- OPERATION SUBSTANCE

The ships, which formed the force on this occasion, consisted of seven destroyers, three of the F class,...

What life was like on the Rock during the War Years

During the Falkland War and Gulf War, Navy ships were reprovisioned with food, fuel and ammunition here in...

Gib during the War: With the Royal Engineers

He fondly remembered, how each night a soothing piece of classical music, the Intermezzo from Cavelleria...

My mother: Evacuated from Gibraltar

When the entire population of women,children and old men was evacuated from Gibraltar in 1940 because the...