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HMS Lanka
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Those known to have sailed in HMS Lanka during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Allen Alfred Norman Napier. Lt.
- Ankers Gordon Proctor. A/Able.Sea.
- Ashby Herbert. Sea.
- Brown Robert William . Able Sea. (d.18th May 1945)
- Buckley Pamela Phoebe. 3rd Officer.
- Chick Robert Henry. Tel.
- Clark Reginald Albert Edward. OM4. (d.12th February 1944)
- Cooke Leonard Ernest. LW. (d.12th February 1944)
- Davies MID. Gerald Ellis. Sub.Lt.
- Diamond Bryan Leslie. Stok1. (d.12th Feb 1944)
- Drew George Norman. PO.
- Ewing Stirling. Stokr2. (d.12th Feb 1944)
- Eyres Thomas. Able Sea.
- Fallows Clifford. AB.
- Fiddian Judith Grace. 2nd Officer.
- Gibson Ronald. Ord.Sig.
- Gibson Ronald. Ord Sig.
- Godfrey William Alexander. Shipw4. (d.12th Feb 1944)
- Gunning Edward Michael.
- Hansell James George. Able Sea.
- Hanshaw Ronald James. AbleSea. (d.12th Feb 1944)
- Heron John Richmond. Able Sea.
- Hillman Ronald Walter. Mtr.Mech. (d.12th Feb 1944)
- Hodgson Wilfred Henry George. CPO
- Hunter Thomas. Stok1.
- Lewis George Tudor. AB.
- Lobb George Frederick Edgar. PO.
- Lunge Romilly Ernest Maundrel . Lt.
- Malina Arnold. Able.Sea
- Noble Leslie. Stok2. (d.12th Feb 1944)
- Packham William James. CPO (d.11th May 1943)
- Page Alexander Wiliam Henry. Able Sea.
- Richbell Edward William.
- Smith Charles. Seaman (d.7th September 1945)
- Smith Walter Ernest. PO. (d.9th Apr 1942)
- Townshend Harold James. Able Sea.
- Wallace Vera Shaw. Leading Wren.
- Wright Edward John. Able Sea.
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Want to know more about HMS Lanka? There are:-1 items tagged HMS Lanka available in our Library
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PO. Walter Ernest Smith HMS Lanka (d.9th Apr 1942) Walter Ernest Smith served as a PO Rigger at HMS Lanka. While doing research on Ancestry for my family tree yesterday, 21st February 2020, my great-uncle's name came up in a hint and the hint was that the Commonwealth Graves Commission had his name on a register and he is buried in the Trincomalee War Cemetery in the former Ceylon.
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Sub.Lt. Gerald Ellis Davies MID. HMS King Alfred Gerald Davies served in HMS Royal Arthur, Wellesley, Drake, Lanka, Sheba, Drake IV and King Alfred. He was twice Mentioned in Despatches.
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Edward William Richbell HMS Pembroke Edward Richbell served in HMS Bristol, HMS Ganges, HMS Swiftsure, HMS Highflyer, HMS Mayma, HMS Lanka, HMS Tragina and HMS Pembroke.
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Able Sea. Robert William Brown HMS Lanka (d.18th May 1945) Robert Brown served in HMS Lanka. He was my great-great-uncle.
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CPO William James Packham HMS Lanka (d.11th May 1943) William Packham served as a writer. He is recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial by the CWGC.
Born 12 July 1902 in Cranbrook, Kent. Son of James and Harriet Packham. Husband of Blanche Elizabeth Packham nee Love.
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Mtr.Mech. Ronald Walter Hillman HMS Lanka (d.12th Feb 1944) Ronald Hillman was born 26 November 1898 to William John Martin Hillman and his wife Rosetta Harriet Hillman, and is commemorated at Chatham War Memorial.
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Lt. Romilly Ernest Maundrel Lunge HMS Osprey   Romilly Lunge was my great uncle. When we were growing up in the 60’s my self and my two brothers and parents spent time during school holidays down on the farm. Easter morning spent in the hen coop looking for hidden Easter eggs.
My father and his two brothers worked on the farm from around 1947 to around 1957 earning about 2/6d a week as farmhands.
He entered the war and joined the Royal Navy and ended up in Ceylon (Shri Lanka) in the day working and with fine tuning sonar to better detect the German U-Boats.
He told me the future Prince Phillip visited the Naval base under a shroud of secrecy once and he showed the Greek prince the highly secret research and development they were doing in anti submarine warfare.
Also he told me he’d been invited to secret cocktail soirées up the hill from Columbo to the famous celebrity staying on the island, no other than theatre and cinemas playwright Noèl Coward.
But Ernest Romilly Maundrel Lunge was quite an interesting but sometimes private person. During the 70’s after he’d moved to Ashby de la Zouch he allowed me to chat with him many times about his former pre war life acting on stage then in the movies and learning to sing opera in the La Scala theatre in Milan Italy. My site hosting some of his movies.
He acted in films and on stage with quite a selection of well known actors and actresses before the war like Vivian Leigh, Lilli Palmer, Rex Harrison, Bruce Cabot, Enid Stamp Taylor and became a character witness in the sad demise of Taylor.
He became a romantic interest to Margarita Scott with skiing trips to the Swiss Alps in the 30’s and summers in North Devon at Woolercombe Bay.
He spent a year living in Milan in latter half of 1929 and was voice trained briefly by the famous singer Caruso then later with younger Beniamino Gigli.
Hitchcock once interviewed him for the movie Secret Agent and he made a film with the Sir Gerald du Maurier studios.
Well that’s a brief synopsis of this interesting private person who settled in Warton back in 1947 to run a 100 acre farm in the tranquil country of Warwickshire.
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Lt. Alfred Norman Napier "Darby" Allen HMS Lanka Alfred Allen was posted seconded to HMS Lanka on 9th of April 1942 after his ship HMS Hermes was sunk by Japanese dive bombers off the coast of Ceylon.
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PO. George Norman Drew HMS Lanka George Drew served in the Royal Navy in WW2 aboard HMS Lanka. He was a Controlled Mines specialist, involved in monitoring Trincomalee Harbour, Sri Lanka, in WW2.
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Stokr2. Stirling Ewing HMS Lanka (d.12th Feb 1944) Stirling Ewing served on the HMS Lanka as a stoker. He was my uncle.
He was on the troop carrier, Khedive Ismail, when it was torpedoed and sunk on 12th of February 1944. He did not survive. He was only 19 years old.
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AB. Clifford Fallows HMS Lanka I have my father, Clifford Fallows', Navy records from May 1941 to January 1946 listing the ship and shore establishments. He was at HMS Lanka 6th of August 1941 to 2nd of September 1941.
The only story he told me that he was on the SS Fultala as a DEMS gunner they were the last ship out of Rangoon Burma in March 1941 as the Japanese were moving in. The ship had a cargo of coal and a full ship of escaping Muslim Burmese and Indian labourers. The ship was torpedoed on 7th of April 1941 by the Japanese and the coal temporary blocked the hole allowing all crew and passengers to be saved. They were adrift in the Indian Ocean for 10 days before being rescued and taken to Bombay. The story was told to make me laugh as he said the Muslims in the open boat were continually praying to Mecca and kept moving to face the sun hence they were glad when the sun set and the boat was still.
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OM4. Reginald Albert Edward Clark HMS Lanka (d.12th February 1944) Reginald Clark is a distant relative of my husband. He was 31 years old, the son of Sydney and Phoebe Clark of Leicestershire, England. He was married to Kate M. A. Clark for only 4 years and left two sons, Philip and Albert.
During WW2 Reginald served with the Royal Navy serving aboard HMS Lanka (also known as SS Khedive Ismail). He died 12th of February 1944 when HMS Lanka was sunk by a Japanese submarine. He was aged 31 years and is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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