- Contributed byÌý
- warmscanny
- People in story:Ìý
- Ernest Landry
- Location of story:Ìý
- Australia
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3952541
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 26 April 2005
This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by Ernest Landry.
In 1943 I trained at skegness holiday camp as a telegraph fist.
My first ship was a covet; on the D-Day landings we rescued 30 soliders from a troop ship that was sunk by the big guns of Kelly.
Then I was on convoys to Gibraltar. I was then posted to the pacific where I joined HMS Belfast. I arrived in Australia just as the first bomb hit.
When the war finished I travelled to Hong cong and Shanghi then visited the islands.
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