HDML 1280

Bute Slip, Clyde, Scotland 25/4/44

HDML1280

London Gazette 5/12/44 – For good service distributing instructions in the assault anchorage after the first landings in Normandy

  • MID LSea George Williams LT/JX217711

Known Crew

  • TSLt L G Hopwood RNVR TASLt 8/10/44 TSLt HDML 1280 8/4/45
  • LSea George Williams LT/JX217711 HDML 1280 For good service distributing instructions in the assault anchorage after the first landings in Normandy MID
  • TSLt C A Caudle RNVR TASLt 8/10/43 Commanding Officer ML 858 7/2/44 TSLt 8/4/44 transferred to RN 18/3/47 HMS Redpole HMS Redpole HMS Ausonia Commanding Officer, SDML 3503 3/50 HMS Tamar 11/50 Lt Cdr 18/3/52HMS Warrior 24/2/53 Born in 1921 Royston district, Oxfordshire and died 21/1/57 in
    Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital (Anglesea Road Wing), Ipswich, Suffolk

ML1280 Crew

Hong Kong Flotilla:

  • David Duffy (Commanding Officer)
  • Ronnie Graham-Clarke (Commanding Officer)
  • Sea George Fieldstone J820186 Also served in ML 3512
  • Sea Ben Goodman P/JX. 889757
  • Sea William Treacher P/SSX. 882617
  • ME Rex Cowper P/SKX816088
  • ME Colin Scrivner C/SKX. 772005

Wartime Activities

  • Operation Neptune – Invasion of Normandy
  • Distributing instructions in the assault anchorage after the first landings

Post War History

  • Hong Kong Flotilla
  • ML 3503
  • 1958 Sold = Lady Ellen

ML1280 Officer

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