Last night Britons in Marsa Alam, near Sharm el-Sheikh, were under virtual curfew. Lawrence Aston, 52, from Bromley, Kent, on holiday with his wife and two sons, said: “We would have gone elsewhere if we’d have known what was going to happen. “The Foreign Office still say it’s ...
World War 1 HMS Hampshire HMS Hampshire was a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was constructed at the Chatham Dockyard, Kent and commissioned in 1905 at a cost of �833,817. She served in the First World War and fought at the battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916....
In 1927, he is listed as being stationed at the naval shore base of HMS Pembroke in Chatham, Kent. From 1928 to 1930, Arthur is listed as being Commander of the original HMS Saumarez, a Parker Class Destroyer Leader (built in 1916 & sold in 1931). In 1930, Arthur Harris took over...
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