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AB. Leonard Thomas Pardoe
Royal Navy HMS Flycatcher
from:Lye, Stourbridge, Worcs
Len Pardoe born 6th of May 1924 was from Quarry Bank, Staffordshire, a Black Country lad. He joined the Navy in November 1942 serving on HMS Drake and because of the practice of filling the ranks with people from a wide range of areas, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to understand what the other ratings were saying, due to all the diverse accents. At the wars' end he was in Australia with Mobile Operational Naval Air Base, so didn't return home until late 1946, having circumnavigated the globe. He later became a newspaper cartoonist in Birmingham.
