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Those known to have sailed in Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Anderson Lawrence Hogg. AM.
- Ashforth Ernest Geoffrey.
- Austin Charles William.
- Badger Reg. AM/O 1st class.
- Baker George. LAC
- Baker Thomas Alfred. L/Sig.
- Basnett William.
- Beardsley DSM James. LAC (d.30th July 1941)
- Bias John Charles. LAM.
- Blackburn Douglas Gerald. L/Stkr.
- Bunyan Dennis Jenkin. Lt.
- Burke Edmund Seymour. SLt (d.30th July 1941)
- Cadman Richard John. Air Mech.
- Chapman Tom Christopher. Slt.
- Chesney Henry. CPO.
- Clarke Joseph.
- Coward Denis.
- Dow James.
- Dow James.
- Duncan John.
- Esmonde VC, DSO Eugene. Lt.Cmdr (d.12th February 1942)
- Forrest James Henry.
- Gardner Ronald.
- Godfrey Reginald George.
- Goldsmith Ernest Henry. PO
- Gray VC, DSC Robert Hampton. Lt. (d.9 August 1945)
- Gregory Robert James. PO.
- Howatt George Donald. PO.
- Irving John McKie. LAM(L)
- Jennings James William.
- Jones Francis Thomas William. AM2. (d.17th January 1941)
- Jones Joseph Edgar. Sub-Lt. (d.10th March 1945)
- Lodge Denis. AFO.
- Maguire Albert Edmund. AM2.
- Maher DSC. Arthur Derek. Sub-Lt. (d.24th Jan 1942)
- McGeoch Boyd Heath Reynolds.
- Mills Walter Jack. AM1.
- Mitchell Frank. Ldg.Photo(A)(Ty)
- Mitchell Geoff.
- Mitchell William.
- Morgan William.
- Poe John Charles Leonard. PO.
- Price Albert Ernest. P.O. (d.5th Apr 1942)
- Radburn Stanley Gordon. PO.
- Richardson Norman Alfred. Air Mech.(E)
- Roberts James Harry. Ord.Sea.
- Ryan William Charles. L.M.
- Shirley Edward Walter. LAC. (d.27th March 1943)
- Sidwell Sydney Herbert.
- Skinner Frank Alfred. AirMech.1st.
- Stamp John Herbert. AM1. (d.15th Nov 1942)
- Syddall William Henry.
- Warren Patrick. Sub.Lt(A) (d.16th May 1945 )
- Whitehead George Herbert. Lt. (d.3rd Oct 1944)
- Wilkinson Geoffrey Arthur. AM2.
- Williamson George.
- Wines Charles Herbert. Lt.Cmdr.
- Winfrow Arthur. 1Mech.
- Wright Frank. Chief Petty Officer
- York William. AM.
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Want to know more about Fleet Air Arm? There are:2082 items tagged Fleet Air Arm available in our Library
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Lt. George Herbert Whitehead 880 Squadron (d.3rd Oct 1944) George Whitehead lost his life while serving wth 880 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service.
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Air Mech.(E) Norman Alfred Richardson Fleet Air Arm Whilst working on my family history, I have discovered that my father, Norman Richardson, began his war service in the Royal Air Force in 1942 and subsequently transferred to the Fleet Air Arm in 1944. He is recorded as serving on HMS Fencer at the end of the war and also as part of the ships company of HMS Bambara from 26 December 1945 to 17th July 1946.
I would love to know if there is any information out there about the men Norman would have served with as he passed away in 2010 but rarely spoke about his war service.
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Reginald George "Fanjo" Godfrey Fleet Air Arm Reginald Godfrey served with the Fleet Air Arm. I only have stories about the Kamikasi and would be grateful if any one remembers my dad
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AFO. Denis Lodge 794 Squadron Denis Lodge served at H.M.S. Vulture and with 749 Squadron RNAS. I don’t know much about my father’s service record, I found this ID card among my mother’s effects.
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PO. George Donald Howatt Fleet Air Arm My father, Don Howatt, joined the Navy from the Falkland Islands in 1929. He became a telegraphist air gunner in 1936. His instructor was Lt.Cdr Montbatton. He served on various ships: HMS Furious, HMS Courageous and in
1939 posted to HMS Kestrel on instructional staff.
Next he went to HMS Ark Royal, then HMS Hermes as PO then
to West of Scotland as senior instructor where he lost an eye when a bomb exploded on the plane he was in.
He remained in the Navy changing to the Electric branch. Various ships
later including HMS Ariel. He retired in 1962 as Lt.Cdr. rank.
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PO. Robert James Gregory No. 1771 Squadron Robert Gregory served with the Fleet Air Arm in No. 1771 Naval Air Squadron, which flew the Fairey Firefly, deployed from the aircraft carrier HMS Implacable in the North Atlantic during 1944 and in the Pacific with the British Pacific Fleet from May to September 1945.
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Ronald Gardner HMS Daedalus Ronald Gardner was an air frame fitter with the Fleet Air Arm and served in HMS Daedalus.
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L.M. William Charles Ryan Fleet Air Arm My grandfather William Ryan served in the Fleet Air Arm until 12th February 1945.
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L/Sig. Thomas Alfred "Bagsy" Baker HMS Raven Fleet Air Arm My father Thomas Baker was known as Alf or Bagsy. He lived in East Ham, then moved to Leigh-on-sea Essex. He joined the Navy training ship Arethusa aged 13 and a half in 1931 when life was tough for all the boys. He then went to HMS Ganges 1933-1935, HMS Pembroke, Cairo, Woolwich, Victory, Kestrel.
He was assigned to HMS Raven in Eastleigh 1939 at the start of the war as Acting Leading Signalman where he met my mother on Eastleigh rec at the bandstand with his friend Charlie Taffe. Dad confided in his friend Bob Aggas that he was very fond of mum. Mum & Dad married in Eastleigh Parish church in September 1940. They had a few honeymoon days in Torquay, then dad was away for 3 years.
He served aboard HMS Grebe until April 1943, during which time he flew Albacore, Fairey and Swordfish as an air gunner flying scout over the desert observing enemy movements. He was happened to be aboard (not sure which vessel) just as the Germans were invading Norway. The inhabitants gave the Allies all of their valuables so the Nazis wouldn’t have them. Dad was given a bag of silver, but just as the ship was departing it was torpedoed. Unfortunately, he jumped one way and bag went the other.
Once back home, he had a medical which showed a shadow on his lung which landed him in a sanatorium for best part of a year. It was actually because he had had double pneumonia and pleurisy when he was a child.
After hospital discharge, he was mainly based in HMS Daedalus, still flying the Swordfish. All during Dad’s career he gained many qualifications, including the German language. Because of this, he was lent to the German Air Arm in Bremen during the late 1950s. Then he served with RNAS Lossiemouth late 40s early 50s, living in Nissen huts the Army and RAF didn't want. He served on HMS Bulwark 1963-65 during another crisis. Dad’s last posting was HMS Seahawk (Culdrose, Cornwall) where he retired in 1968. We returned to Hampshire in 1976. Dad developed cancer and passed in September 1983. I have various photos and letters etc.
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AM1. Walter Jack Mills MONAB X Fleet Air Arm Walter Mills served with the Fleet Air Arm.
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AM2. Francis Thomas William Jones HMS Daedalus (d.17th January 1941) Francis Jones served with the Royal Navy aboard HMS Daedalus in WW2. He died 17th of January 1941 aged 21 years and is remembered the Lee-on-Solent Memorial in Hampshire. Son of William and Martha Louisa Jones, of Hereford.
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LAC George Baker George Baker joined the RAF in 1940, he was eighteen years old. He transferred to the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm on 14th of May 1945, and after a short period of training was transferred to HMS Gadwall, a shore based station at Sydenham, Belfast.
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Sub-Lt. Joseph Edgar Jones HMS Vulture Fleet Air Arm (d.10th March 1945)   Joseph Jones, Eddie, as he was known, worked in Bradford as a trainee electrician (a reserved occupation). He came over to work in Bradford because his Aunt and Uncle had a business there and lived in Ilkley.
He and my mother, Jean Thornton started courting. Originally Jean and Eddie were invited along on a double date with friends but got on well and carried on seeing each other.
Eddie was always very respectful of Jean and well liked by her family.
Jean was 4 years younger than he was and they met when Jean was quite young (perhaps 15 or 16). Eddie was almost 23 when he died (on the 10th March 1945) and Jean 19. Their birthdays were very close on the 12th and 13th March.
Eddie joined the Royal Air Force and trained in Winnepeg, Canada in 1943. In 1945 he transferred to the Fleet Air Arm and was killed on a Naval training flight in Cornwall.
Eddie and Jean had planned to get engaged but, on the day they had planned to buy the ring, the shops were shut by the time they got to them. In those days Bradford's city centre shops had a half day closing on a Saturday. Somehow the couple had an misunderstanding and Eddie thought that Jean had not wanted to get engaged. He then went off to his training and somehow the couple never made up before he died.
Jean found out later (from his sister) that he had spent the money for the ring getting blind drunk in Dublin before going to his posting. His family had not known why, he was not normally a drinker, or where the money had come from.
The day Eddie died, 10th of March 1945, Jean mysteriously knew that it had happened and said that it felt like her world had fallen apart. She had just assumed that he would come back and they would make up.
Jean recently passed away but had always kept Eddie's picture and a beautiful satin nightgown he had given her. We spoke about him in the days before she died and his picture was there by her bed.
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