HDML 1303

Blackmore, Bideford, Devon 15/6/43

London Gazette 10/7/45 – For operations off the coast of Arakan from November 1944 to March 1945

London Gazette 11/9/45 – For operations off the coast of Arakan from November 1944 to March 1945

Known Crew

TLt C M Page RANVR TSLt 6th MGB Flotilla MGB 65 13/10/41 1st MGB Flotilla 6/7/42 TLt 28/8/42 Commanding Officer HDML 1303 26/7/43 HMS Gregale (Malta) 18/6/44 HMS Orlando (Greenock) (for staff duties) 10/45 HDML 1345 HMAS Rushcutter (RAN base, Sydney, NSW)
TSLt John Lyon Taylor RNVR HDML 1303 24/5/43 TSLt 19/8/43 For operations off the coast of Arakan from November 1944 to March 1945 DSC Commanding Officer HDML 1304 4/45
TSLt M A Renton SANF(V) Mid 21/4/44 HDML 1303 17/5/45
Sea Peter Hartley LT/JX436831 HDML 1303 For operations off the coast of Arakan from November 1944 to March 1945 MID
Sea Samuel Ernest Leggett LT/JX 167084 HDML 1303. Died by drowning 18/07/1943, aged 24. Son of Harry Victor and Alice Maud Leggett, of Gorleston, Great Yarmouth. Buried in Great Yarmouth (Gorleston) Cemetery

Wartime Activities

10/44-4/45 Operations off the coast of Arakan
11-24/12/44 Task Force 64 (Capt. Bush) with the destroyers Napier and Nepal, sweepers, landing boats and. Coastal protection flotillas 55 and 56 with HDML 1275, HDML 1303, ML 438, ML 439, ML 440, ML 441, ML 447, ML 847 and ML 855, fire in support for 13 days of the sea-flank of the XV. British Corps at the coast of Arakan

Post War History

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