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| Ships & Planes | War Memorials | Bwlchgwyn War Memorial |
Reorganising this section is a work-in-progress - the gaps will be filled in eventually!
| Bill Belton, Singapore and 62 Squadron RAF | |
| My father, Bill Belton, and his mate, Doug Heathcote, were on the last RAF plane to leave Singapore - a very lucky escape. Then followed a series of moves from aerodrome to aerodrome, the RAF being followed by the advancing Japanese, before they escaped, with many other airmen, on the Dutch cargo ship, the Kota Gede. | |
| Jim Salthouse: Merchant Navy, Q Boats and Revolution | |
| My grandfather, James Thomas Salthouse, was a commissioned officer in the Royal Navy. He was a marine engineer and worked on the Q boats in WW!; one of his ships was torpedoed and he was rescued from an open boat. After the war he accepted Churchill's call for volunteers to 'oil the fleet' and help the white Russians. | |
| Ships & Planes | |
| Available soon, separate pages for the Kota Gede, Otranto, Blenheim, etc | |
| War Memorials | |
| Courtesy of the CWGC, certificates recording the servicemen who died | |
| More Stories | |
| Eventually I hope to include other people's military service stories in this area | |