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HMS Dinosaur
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Those known to have sailed in HMS Dinosaur during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Addis MID. DSC. Richard Graham. Lt. (d.30th March 1944)
- Basey Charles Edward.
- Bell William Samuel. PO.
- Cama John Edward. Sub.Lt.
- Montgomery James. Able Sea.
- Parkes Samuel Isaiah. AB.
- Wilson OBE, VRD. Allistair Tennant. Cdr.
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Charles Edward Basey HMS Dinosaur My father, Charles Basey was born in Woolwich and joined the Royal Marines at Eastern Barracks on 27th of May 1942. He served on the ships HMS Dinosaur, HMS Hamilton, HMS Copra, and HBL RM Figyp (the spelling on his record sheet). He was discharged on 19th July 1946, class A.
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PO. William Samuel "Curly" Bell HMS Dinosaur William Bell, my father-in law, served on ships HMS Victory, HMS Dinosaur, and HMS Cobra taking tanks to France on D-Day. He's 95 years old now.
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Sub.Lt. John Edward Cama HMS Dinosaur John Cama piloted a landing craft the day after the D-Day Normandy landings. As a veteran, he later returned twice to the D-Day landing beaches. John died in June 2008. Sadly, that was 6 years too soon to qualify for award of France's Legion d'honneur. In June 2014, on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the French president announced that the medal would be awarded to all British veterans who had fought for the liberation of France. However, the medal could not be awarded posthumously.
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AB. Samuel Isaiah Parkes HMS Copra Dad, Samuel Isaiah Parkes didn't talk much about the war.
We know he drove the landing crafts, and he had a perforated eardrum as they fired the guns on board ship before he could get his protection on.
He suffered terribly with his ear after the war.
He served from 1942 until 1946 in HMS Ganges, HMS Pembroke, HMS Dinosaur and HMS Copra.
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Cdr. Allistair Tennant "Tug" Wilson OBE, VRD.  The Naval Career of Allistair Tennant Wilson R.N.V.R.
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01.11.1926 he became a Probationary Midshipman at H.M.S. President.
In 1927 Promotion to Midshipman at H.M.S. President,
21.03.1927 to 17.04.1927 he undertook Sea Training in H.M.S. Ramillies. In January 1928 he was Sea Training in H.M.S. Repulse. On
04.10.1928 he was promoted to Sub Lieutenant at H.M.S. President. From
06.07.1929 to 26.07.1929 we served in H.M.S. Comus.
02.06.1930 to 14.06.1930 he was Sea Training, at Rosyth with H.M.S. Vortigern. In May 1931 he was with H.M.S. Excellent the joined H.M.S. Dryad.
04.09.1931 to 18.09.1931 he was in H.M.S. Restless. On
04.10.1931 he was promotion to Lieutenant.
08.05.1932 to 19.06.1932 he was Sea Training in the North Sea with H.M.S. Dundalk. On
05.11.1932 he was board T.S.S. Patroclus bound for Singapore
In January 1934 he was Executive Officer RNVR Singapore Division H.M.S. Laburnum. He returned to England in October 1935.
23.05.1937 to 12.06.1937 he was Sea Training in H.M.S. Rodney. In November 1938
Sea Training with H.M.S. Sharpshooter.
July 1939 Sea Training in H.M.S. Acheron.
On 23.08.1939 he was on passage to Malta in S.S. Brighton.
26.08.1939 Arriving on the 26th of August.
When war broke out he was in
Malta with H.M.S. Dunoon and on
04.10.1939 he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. On
09.11.1939 he joined H.M.S. St. Angelo from Fort St. Elmo in Malta.
On
14.07.1941 A.K.H.M. under Captain of the Dockyard.
00.11.1941 he was V.R.D. Transporting Officer, Senior Staff Officer
20.11.1943 marked the end of service his under Rear Admiral K.D.MacKenzie in Malta. On
13.03.1944 he posted to Troon, with H.M.S. Dinosaur.
21.03.1944 at Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth and in April joined the
Combined Ops Base, Troon, Scotland. LC HQ. H.M.S. Dinosaur.
02.04.1944 he was posted to R.N.Party 1500
12.04.1944 his address is given as 36 Sydney St. S.W.3
26.05.1944 He returned to Portsmouth, R.N.Party 1500.
On the 10th of June 1944 he landed at Arromanches, D-Day Landings, Normandy with the
A.K.H.M. Mulberry B. R.N. PARTY 1500.
On
19.08.1944 he joined H.M.S. Royal Anne. A.K.H.M. Normandy.
06.02.1945 he was with R.N.Party 1500, Naval Base, Normandy where he remained until VE Day.
In September 1946 he was Executive Officer, Bristol. H.M.S. Flying Fox,
In 1950 he became a Commander and at the Coronation Review he was in command at Bristol of H.M.S. Venturer. He was awarded an
01.01.1954 O.B.E. in the 1954 New Years Honours and in the .1954 Jubilee Review he was Commanding H.M.S. Venturer.
In August 1954 he retired being Medically unfit.
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Able Sea. James "Monty" Montgomery Tank Landing Craft HMS Dinasour My father James Montgomery joined the Royal Navy in August 1921 as a volunteer at the age of 20.
After basic training he went to HMS Pembroke and HMS Quebec until March 1942 when he is shown on his service records as been attached to HMS Dinosaur and Cobra. HMS Cobra was a training centre for Landing Craft among other courses but was also used to cover any gaps where the name of a ship wasn't known.
My father has the North Africa Star and he told me stories of transiting the Med to get there. He also showed me a picture of a ship that he served on that unfortunately was torpedoed on its way back. My father had, luckily for him, been taken off that ship prior to it departing.
On 6th June 1944 my father was in Tank Landing Craft on Omaha beach in support of US forces.
My father told me about Omaha beach but it wasn't until after his death when I watched Saving Private Ryan that I realized exactly what that must have been like.
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Lt. Richard Graham Addis MID. DSC. HMS Laforey (d.30th March 1944)  Richard Addis was the 13th of the 13 children of Sir Charles and Lady Addis, of Woodside, Frant, Sussex. He was born in London on the 1st December 1916. He married Gill, nee Dearmer in London on the 9th December 1941. Their son, David, was born on 10th March 1944 (one son died at birth 17 Oct 1942). Dick was killed in action on 30th March 1944, aged 28, when his son was less than a month old. Gillian later remarried and died in December 2005.
From 20th of October 1939 to 19th of November 1939 Dick Addis was Prob. Temp. S/Lt RNVR at HMS King Alfred for basic training. Peter Scott (the famous ornithologist) was also in training there and singing Dick's songs. Gill had just come back from France and was in all the newspapers, especially the Evening Standard. Gill met Dick via Peter whom Gill knew via Peter's mother.
From 22nd of August 1940 to 9th of April 16941 he was a Lt RNVR on HMS Astral tender to HMS Wildfire (the Captain of Astral was a good cook and there was also signalman Stone, a cockney).
In May 1940 he was at Dunkirk, about which he wrote an eye witness account that was published in Blackwoods Magazine.
He was Mentioned in Dispatches for his work at Dunkirk. Temp. Sub Lt Mobile Balloon Barrage on Astral (this may have been a Belgian ship). The ships went up and down the Channel from Sheerness to Portsmouth
and on the 6th of May 41 as a Temp. Sub Lt. he was awarded the DSC for his work on the Mobile Balloon Barrage.
From the 29th of May 1941 to 6th of January 1942 he was a Sub. Lt & Lt RNVR on HMS Mignonette Flower Class Corvette.
As a Probationary Temporary Sub Lieutenant RNVR, Dick was sent in April 1941 for a fortnight's training at HMS Nimrod, the anti-submarine base in Campbeltown, commanded by his elder brother Charles, who was a Captain RN. The new entries were lined up on joining to be greeted by the commanding officer who, when he came to his brother, asked "What's your name?" "Addis, sir", Dick declared. At which Charles with a straight face replied "Oh yes, I believe I know your parents."
On the 8th of February 1942 be became a Temp Lt at HMS Mercury, RN Signal School.
Then on the 23rd of May 23.05.43 he transferred to HMS Dinosaur training on landing craft.
From the 1st of Decemner to 7th of January 1943 he was at HMS Mercury Qualifying for Lt 'S'
before joining HMS Laforey under Capt "Beaky" Armstrong. The ship was torpedoed by a U-Boat and sank off the coast of Italy on the 30th March 1944.
Dick was a gifted musician and played the piano and oboe and also composed a number of pieces. He also wrote prose and poetry, including a number of books, one of which, a children's book, Barbara, the story of a Black Sheep, was published by Faber in 1944. His account of Dunkirk was published in Blackwoods Magazine.
He was also an excellent cook and was friends with Andre Simon, founder of the Wine and Food Society.
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