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. Just put to sea and ...

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 ...

No. 05 — Old workmates at Newton Chambers before going back in pit 1939 Thomas Russell No. 06 — Winston Churchill our war leader waving to the ships company of HMS Ramillies as he leaves after ...

Mr Brandreth told viewers: "He wanted things to be very accurate. "I put that he'd served on HMS Ramillies during the Second World War. "He told me, 'I didn't serve on HMS Ramillies'. I said ...

The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. At the start of the war HMS Ramillies was in New Zealand. The crew were friendly with some Maoris. Before the ship left the Captain ...

Mr Lam, then 33, was serving on the British warship HMS Ramillies that, according to his diary, opened fire about an hour after HMS Warspite. “Throughout the day, Ramillies fired over 200 15 ...

He said: “It was marvellous, we shared two or three jokes, I served on board the HMS Ramillies when Prince Philip was on there, so we talked about one or two things. “It was such a marvellous ...

spending the first few months of 1940 as a midshipman on HMS Ramillies, HMS Kent and HMS Shropshire before seeing active service on the HMS Valiant in Alexandria from January 1941. He was ...