This contribution is from Paul Nicholls and is added to the site with his permission. I think the war first had an impact on me when my father was no longer at home so often and I realised he was ...

My father's cousin Harry (Henry) Ward from Pudsey, West Yorkshire was an Engine Room Artificer 4th Class when he sailed on the ill fated HMS Neptune which sank off Tripoli on 19 December 1941. He was ...

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