Another great photo Damian, any more that we haven't seen.

Jim

Hi Keith when you get to scan your picture make sure you scan it at less than 1200Kb in size or just resize it after scanning, then where it says picture on the "sign the guestbook" page, there is a Browse tag , which you can click, press that and look for the folder that you stored the scanned picture in and add the picture by double clicking it..

Again guys, not sure if this is one you have seen.

Jeff Demain,
Very Happy Belated Birthday Whishes , I do hope your Not to old Jeff ,Jean & I wish you Happy Birthday.
Slinger & Jean.

Damian's photo on 1232 was taken in Alexandria immediately before I joined the ship in Malta inSeptember 1944. I have an identical one of the Communications Branch together with our Signals Officer. There is one of the whole ship's company taken at the same time but I only have half of the full photo. As Damian says I'm pretty sure that is the torpedomen together with the Gunner(T). I can't scan at present but will send them when I get it corrected though I don't know how to put photos onto the Guestbook, but will find out.

D.O.B. 13th July 1953,any younger
Hi Jeff and G'Day all,

THAT PHOTO THAT JEFF DEMAIN POSTED IN THE JUNIORS MESSDECK, CAN ONLY HELP AT THIS TIME WITH ONE NAME WHICH IS THE GUY ON THE RIGHT FRONT
WHICH IS JOCK MONAGHAN, THE OTHER ONE I RECOGNISE BUT ALSO CAN'T PLACE THE NAME, BUT I STILL HAVE TWO WEEKS BEFORE MY 56TH AND DEMENTURE TIME SO WILL HAVE A LOOK THROUGH WHAT I HAVE AND SEE IF I CAN GET BACK TO YOU.

RGDS TO ALL

KEVAN (I THINK THE YOUNGEST OF THE EX CREW)

down-under

A great photo Damian, some nice tiddly cap tally bows amongst that lot

My grandfather is the guy on the far right in the middle row. Keith has mentioned that this photo is probably of the torpedomen and their captain.

TORQUAY REUNION, I think we may have come to the end on numbers for this year. The EAGLE has beat us this year oppo's,this is the breakdown..........

EAGLE....16 PLUS 4 WHO SERVED IN THE UNDAUNTED TOO.

UNDAUNTED.... 12 PLUS 4 WHO SERVED IN BOTH TOO.

MY OPPO AND JEFF DEMAINS OPPO...= 2

DEREK JOHN's EX EAGLE FOR GALA DINNER..=2

34 ROOMS BOOKED...X27 DOUBLES..X7 SINGLE = 61 (63 Sat)

AYE.

B.J.

Belated birthday greetings Jeff,I see in your last photie in the guestbook,you were ALL so young and Skin,now I remember why I spent so much time down the Juniors mess.......never did find the GOLDEN RIVIT in my own mess....or NAVY CAKE. lol..... I hope you had a great day oppo....bring some woods to Torquay and we will have a drink to this Birthday.

aye.

B.J.

Hope you had a great birthday Jeff, you didn't mention if you received the card, cake and bottle of bubbly that I sent you. Hope they all arrived safely.

Jim

Hi all.

Here with a piccy, circa 1970/1 taken in the Juniors mess, Me far right and I think Spud Murphy looking in from the back. Can't remember the other two though. Any clues?

Happy Birthday to me, Happy birthday to me. Thanks for the cards chaps. 56 on the 26th June. Still skin.
Happy birthday Slinger.
I am your reliable bunting tosser and I can catagorically say that the flags in Damians picture read as follows.
" If you want the ashes - come and get em".

romft

Hi Folks, RE Damian's 1221 and JIM's 1222, Yes I have this photo and Jim is right. It was taken when she was on her trials out of Birkenhead and before she had her pennants and red bands painted. In the background is, I think, Birkenhead though It might be Liverpool.
What great photos you have Damian, some I haven't seen before. The South Africa one must have been taken on her way home from Sydney and the Pacific. I had just left her before she sailed home but I've told that story before. Somewhere I have a copy of that Proclamation but I haven't seen it for many years. Will have to have a hunt but I was certainly on board the first time we crossed the line.

Re Barry's 1213 and BJ's 1204 I can now say Barry is absolutely right about the pennants. Yesterday I was with an old business colleague who, before joining the Gas Industry was time serving in RN. He finished as Chief Yeoman of Signals and he said that if the photo shows her leaving harbour, then the pennants being flown will almost certainly be the ship's pennants at that time, R53.

My grandfather had this poster in his collection as well.



Hi Damien, To think neptunes wrote this in 1945-46,pity the date is not on it,mine from The EAGLE has the date,that said M8 super,fantastic. aye....B.J.

You bastard BJ - Sleep with one eye open -
I knows where you live - - - -
I knew I was doing something wrong with that coke Jim - It's O.K. going in (A bit chewy) but a real bugger when it comes out again
Lovley photos Damian - Well done Oppo - A real walk down through the old girl's history

Some great photos of the old girl Damian. Not sure if Keith has a copy of that last pic and I believe it was taken during her trials, in the River Mersey. The photo of her in South Africa is a real topper.

Not sure where this was taken and again if you guys have seen this one..

Hi guys, just thought I would post this picture of the old girl in South Africa. I don't know if this picture has been seen on here before??

Damian..

Jim, I thought it was Bill Bailey, Hiding Again.
Slinger.