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Stkr.1st Cl. John McCarthy
Royal Navy
from:Belfast
My father, John McCarthy was stationed at St Angelo between 1942 and 1944.
His real name was John O'Hara, but he joined the Royal Navy under his mother's maiden name, due to religious intolerance. He was a Catholic living under non-Catholic rule in Northern Ireland. To join the British Navy had to be kept a secret, even though it was an honourable thing to do.
My father died in 1968 in Bradford, leaving me as one of seven children he had with my mother.