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Bdmn. Joseph William "Ginge" Carruthers
Royal Marines Band HMS Phoebe
from:Portsmouth
My Father joined as a bandboy in 1936 aged 14.
He served on HMS Phoebe, HMS Sussex, HMS Gosling and HMS Queen Elizabeth during the war.
After the war he served on HMS Indefatigable, Implacable, Ceylon, Newfoundland, Triumph, Vernon and Wolfe.
We lived in Singapore at HMS Terror between 1962 and 1967.