- Contributed byÌý
- Lensticks
- People in story:Ìý
- Len Chester
- Location of story:Ìý
- Scapa Flow
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Marines
- Article ID:Ìý
- A2497980
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 06 April 2004
I joined the Royal Marines on 3.5.1939 as a Boy Bugler aged 14years 28 days, I was sent to HMS Iron Duke in Dec.1939.The story I wish to tell happened in March, 1940, but had an amazing sequel in Sept.2003 when I returned to Scapa Flow. The first part I wrote in 1985, the sequel in Oct.2003 having found the graves I was looking for. The 2 stories are too long to fit in this restricted space, but I can forward them to an address. I have also written a small book of cameos
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