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World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

12th November 1943

On this day:





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Remembering those who died this day.

  • Campbell Robert Hugh. Flt.Sgt. (d.12th November 1943)
  • Rundle Stanley Maurice. Sgt. (d.12th Nov 1943)
  • Sullivan Daniel James. (d.12th November 1943)

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Want to know more about the 12th of November 1943?


There are:7 items tagged 12th of November 1943 available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War.




Stories from 12th November 1943





Daniel James Sullivan. Royal Navy, BYMS 72 (J872) Royal Naval Patrol Service. (d.12th November 1943)

The British Yard Minesweeper - BYMS 72(J872) - was captured on 12th November 1943 off Kalymnos in the Aegean. Three of the crew - Stoker I Yuill (Glasgow), L/wireman C Crichton and Seaman H Mariner managed to swim ashore. Yuill and Crichton made it back to Alexandria but Mariner had to be left in a cave as he had leg wounds (he was sighted in the UK in 1945).

On 11th November 1943 (11/11/is always very special day) a glider bomb had hit the 72 and devastated it. Those who had been placed in hospital then became POWs when the Germans invaded and captured the island. Stoker A.S. Hudson (Newcastle) was separated from the others and placed on a hospital ship which was boarded by the RN and Stoker Hudson was taken off. The Admiralty decided that he was still to traumatised and sent him back to the UK.

While I have the full story of the 72, I am following up the lives of those who survived and what they did after 1945/6. I have made contact with 16 of the survivors' families so far.

The Commander of the 72 was E.H. Taylor ex-HMS Ligny) and he came from Sunderland. Unfortunately the address I have no longer exists.

My father was killed when the 72 was captured. I would be very grateful for any assistance given with the above.

Derek Sullivan



Flt.Sgt. Robert Hugh Campbell. Royal Australian Air Force , 102 (Ceylon) Squadron. (d.12th November 1943)

My Uncle Robert Campbell was 25 years old when he and his crew were laying mines off the Frisian Islands when they were shot down by a flak ship. Bobby was an Australian who was a young man working on an enormous cattle station in Queensland named Wave Hill as a jackaroo, he decided that he wanted to join up and train to be a pilot. His journey from the top of Australia to Melbourne at the bottom was in the newspaper at the time.

His initial training was at Mascot in Sydney and his first trainer was a relative of Charles Kingsford Smith, a famous Australian airman. Sydney airport is named after him. Like most Australians Bobby was sent to Aylmer in Ontario for the next part of his training. He was then sent to England and learnt to fly Halifax bombers. He was a beautiful boy, a bit of a devil I think.

I am lucky to have all his letters to his mother firstly from the cattle station, then from his days in Canada and England. It is fascinating to see him growing in maturity from a 16 year old boy to a 25 year old man. I have had them preserved. The saddest letter is his mother’s last letter to him which was returned to her. It is hard for us to imagine the horror for her of receiving that letter back.

My grandmother kept in touch with the mothers of the other boys in his crew and for many years sent parcels to them as times were hard after the war in England. One of the mothers sent her the poem of They shall grow not old, in a lovely picture frame in her own hand writing with drawings surrounding it including a little plane. I am lucky to have that as well.

I don’t know anything about those other boys but their names:

  • JC Arrowsmith Sgt.
  • LD Dingley FO
  • AG Dyson F/Sgt
  • C Healey Sgt
  • F Thrall
  • Sgt LG Yorke Sgt

I honour them and their families.

Jocelyn Murphy










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