PO. Clifford Norcliffe
Royal Navy D.E.M.S.
from:42, High Street, Scapegoat Hill, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
My father, Clifford Norcliffe was called up in late 1941 and was posted into the D.E.M.S. immediately after his training. He was not one for fanciful stories but there was one task that was carried out by him and his buddies that I would very much like explaining:
During his first couple of years he was posted onto trawlers between London and Newcastle, and also along the south coast and during this period they were occasionally ordered to convey individuals (spies he assumed) at night onto the French coast. My father told me that while they were carrying out these orders they removed all their military identifications, I cannot remember whether he told me that they were ordered to do so or not, but I would very much like to learn what the circumstances would be were this could have happened.
Unfortunately, my father died in 1990 and there are so many things I would like to ask him now. He was also one of the gunners on the Scelonian, the ferry from the mainland to the Isles of Scilly. The last couple of years of the war he volunteered for merchant ships between England and the USA, Australia, New Zealand and several south sea islands.
