This story was submitted to the People's War site by CSV/BBC Radio Nottingham on behalf of ALfred Booker with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. At the start ...
The following diary of the events around the D-Day Landings was written by my father, Edward Francis Wightman, who served as a Royal Navy Seaman/Gunner on board HMS Ramillies. Friday, 2 June 1944, 8pm ...
In his diary, Lam wrote of a narrow brush with death on D-Day aboard HMS Ramillies, as the battleship’s mighty guns were pounding German fortifications with massive 880-kilogram (1,938-pound) shells ...
The Sept. 6 Travel section contained a correction that referred to the names of two British warships as the HMS Roberts and the HMS Ramillies. If you were to write out, or at least speak, the full ...
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