- Contributed byÌý
- royalstarandgarter
- People in story:Ìý
- John Groom
- Location of story:Ìý
- Atlantic
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:Ìý
- A7270102
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 25 November 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War Site by Margaret Walsh of The Royal Star and Garter ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ on behalf of John Groom and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I joined up in March '43. I went to Newfoundland as a telegrapher. While I was on a frigate in the Atlantic I met a chap named Norton, who showed me drawings of the mechanisms of a motorbike. [The Norton motor bike was well-known subsequently]. After that he disappeared and I never saw or heard from him again. I don't know whether his ship was struck by a torpedo or U boat.
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