HDML 1378

Blackmore, Bideford, Devon 11/10/43

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

  • MID LSea Frederick Arthur Bunn L/X10708B

Known Crew

  • TSLt Harold Willey Rowland RNVR HMS Liberia (minesweeping trawler) TSLt 26/2/42 HMS St Christopher for MLs 2/5/42 ML 269 4th ML Flotilla First Lieutenant ML 233 29/5/42 Commanding Officer HDML 1378 13/9/43 – 4/6/45 TLt 26/8/44 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) Born 1920 in Sheffield district, Yorkshire
  • TLt A F Powis RNVR TSLt 18/9/42 15th ML Flotilla Based at Scapa Flow ML 188 25/1/43 Commanding Officer HDML 1489 28/12/44 HMS Philoctetes II (Freetown, Sierra Leone) TLt 14/3/45 Commanding Officer HDML 1378 4/6/45
  • TSLt J D W Pacey RNVR First Lieutenant HDML 1378 13/9/43 TSLt 28/11/43
  • LSea Frederick Arthur Bunn L/X10708B HDML 1378 For good service distributing instructions in the assault anchorage after the first landings in Normandy MID

Hong Kong Flotilla

  • Patrick Bryans (Commanding Officer)
  • Sea Stuart Robertson P/JX905047 Also served in ML 1328
  • Sea Jack Rowden P/SSX 858401

Wartime Activities

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

Post War History

  • Fast Despatch Boat = FDB80
  • RNVR London Division = HMS Isis
  • ML3513
  • Hong Kong Flotilla
  • 11/58 Sold Hong Kong

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