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Able Sea. Francis Edward Prior

Royal Navy HMS Nelson

from:Gosport

Francis Prior was my Grandad, born in October 1918, he served on HMS Nelson during the Second World War. He was a Gunnery Director. He was in the Malta convoy, Sicily, and was sent on a detachment when HMS Nelson was in refit to the Victory Barrage balloon, then he was deployed to Andlesnes in Norway on a small craft with some Marines. While he was there he buried two sailors who were killed in action both from his home town. He then returned to duty re-attached to HMS Nelson, he is 99 and still plodding on.



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