HDML 1080

Ekins, Christchurch, Dorset 8/10/41

Known Crew

  • TLt M R Bromell RANVR TSLt 23/10/42 HMS Lanka TLt 24/1/43 110th ML Flotilla Commanding Officer HDML 1080 12/3/43 HMAS Rushcutter 1944 ML 427 4/45
    John Milles Commanding Officer HDML 1080
  • TSLt C Turnbull RNVR HDML 1272 14/6/43 TSLt 5/9/43 110th ML Flotilla Commanding Officer HDML 1080 12/44
  • TASLt P M Cromer SANF(V) TASLt 10/1/43 110th ML Flotilla HDML 1080 12/44

Wartime Activities

  • 1/42 At Fort William for training duties and temporarily attached from 110th ML Flotilla
  • 1/1/42 110th ML Flotilla (Destined for East Indies)
    ML 1057 and ML 1080 at Hamble awaiting freighting.
    ML 1072, ML 1082, ML 1084, ML 1086, ML 1087 and ML 1088 to be freighted upon completion
    Transported to South Africa
    110th ML Flotilla
    HDMLs 1057, 1080, 1086, 1098
    Operated out of Trincomalee to the Irrawaddy and Sittang deltas Burma, taking soil samples for analysis at Kandy. Under Colonel Haslar (Blondie). (As a Major, Colonel Haslar had taken part in the ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ raid on Bordeaux.)
  • 9/9/45 Operation Zipper – Invasion of Malaya diverted to Penang.

Post War History

  • ML 3501
  • Malayan Naval Police = SDML 3501
  • 22/6/51 Malayan Navy = Sri Kedah
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