Trowbridge had joined the Royal Navy in 1912 and served on HMS Iron Duke from February 1914 until 1918. Could Jane’s Richard Bagg have been serving abroad with the Army? In early 1919, it was decided to send a British Relief Expeditionary force to get the British troops out of Archangel, many who were due for demobilisation, and also to assist anti-Bolshevik forces.

Winifred Newman was born in Hamworthy and enlisted in the WRNS on August 22nd 1918. It was compulsory to have nightly fire watchers on duty and workers and staff all took their turn, on this particular night a german plane was going up and down the harbour firing machine guns, we hid under the railway trucks, it dropped a bomb on a flying boad called 'Maia' , it sank and the watchman on board was killed, a little norwegian ship called the 'Mari' was moored alongside the quay, the two naval gunners on board mounted their lewis gun, and jerry flew by once too often and the manage to shoot him down, some of the survivors were brought to the quay, and a couple of them did not look much older than me.

Copyright 2020 Poole Tourism. All submariners were volunteers and on interview they had to show they were ‘capable of sustaining a considerable amount of bodily strain’. The town's name derives from the Old English words pool which means a place near a pool or creek and pol which was given to people who lived near a small body of water. The end of the Napoleonic Wars was the beginning of the end for the Newfoundland trade. Blockships in Poole Harbour ready to block the German invasion, 1940, viewed through an archway on the Quay across main channel.

Pool served with the 3rd Platoon of Company I, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, in France between June and September 1944. Appendix 3 Map showing Sectors, Areas and defences Poole and World War II Museum Ref No: PLA 942.337084 Poole and World War II by Derek Beamish, Harold Bennett and John Hillier, published by Poole Historical Trust, 1980. She was assigned to White Oak as a ‘Net Mine Worker’, ie someone who worked on the nets used against mines. George Miles served in the navy during the Second World War. Description of Defences He had been taken prisoner in April 1920 and was understood to be amongst fifty men who were held in Baku prison. Rather confusingly, White Oak was the name of the Poole depot ship for mine net drifters and also that of a drifter that was hired for the duration of the war which sailed from Poole. He based his judgement on a certificate provided by Dr Small who wrote: ‘He lies in bed with eyes staring, refusing to speak or take notice of anything, hands twitching; keeps muttering to himself.

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