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A/Sgt. James Henry Hart
Royal Navy HMS President III
from:Leadbrook Drive, Flintshire
My Father James joined the Navy on 17th of July 1940 and was discharged 4th of March 1946.
His first ship was HMS Raleigh as an Ord. Sea. and left that ship on the 23rd of September 1940. He was then assigned to HMS Drake as an Ord. Sea. from 24th of September 1940 to 5th of May 1941, his rating then changed to Act/AB with a non-substantive rating of Act S.G. from 6th of May 1941 until 20th of August 1941.
He was then assigned to the HMS President III 21st of August 1941 until 4th of March 1946 as an Act S.G. His Rating changed during that period from Act S.G to what looks like Act Gtn this was from July 42 until the end of the war.