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by Stuart
Tue Dec 04, 2018 4:59 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Further thought Stephen - I wonder if the Dutch person on Twitter has any more info on ML 916? Have often wondered if the arrival of the first RN vessels into Antwerp ever had newspaper coverage, if there were newspapers publishing then. Perhaps the Dutch contact would know or could find out - I can...
by Stuart
Tue Dec 04, 2018 4:51 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Hi Stephen - Yes we know this photo but we are struggling to read the name on the cross third from the left. Do you happen to have the technology to make this clearer? Wonder if IWM hold the negatives? I believe this photo was taken by Lt Hampton, an official RN photographer. I have seen two other p...
by Stuart
Thu Nov 08, 2018 4:52 pm
Forum: Forum & Web Site Feedback
Topic: Anniversary of Ml 916 sinking
Replies: 1
Views: 13230

Anniversary of Ml 916 sinking

Thanks to CFV more families of the crew of ML 916 who were lost this November day in 1944 - have learned the story of her sinking, her role in the opening of the port of Antwerp and how this helped the Allies advance into Germany and end WW2. The MacPherson family thank all at CFV for revealing this...
by Stuart
Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:38 pm
Forum: Forum & Web Site Feedback
Topic: HMML 916
Replies: 8
Views: 28718

Re: HMML 916

Hi Geoff - Just to add that we know my father wrote or visited as many families of those killed on 916 as he could- he lost his left leg so had difficulty visiting and we have been astonished how much information the CFVA hold and have found about 916. It is worth searching their site. The only deta...
by Stuart
Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:18 pm
Forum: Forum & Web Site Feedback
Topic: HMML 916
Replies: 8
Views: 28718

Re: HMML 916

Hello Geoffrey - I am Stuart MacPherson, son of Lt G.G.MacPherson skipper of ML 916. You can find the story of the sinking of 916 in the ML section of this site. A picture and any information about your uncle would be most interesting. Through the Coastal Forces Veterans we have lots of detail on 91...
by Stuart
Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:23 pm
Forum: Forum & Web Site Feedback
Topic: Sinking of HM ML 916 November 8th 1944
Replies: 1
Views: 15188

Sinking of HM ML 916 November 8th 1944

To all involved with the Coastal Forces Veterans Association - On the anniversary of the sinking of HM ML 916 we are thinking of the nineteen oh so young men who died at that instant in the cold, muddy water of the River Scheldt and whose names are listed on the Remembrance page. Our families would ...
by Stuart
Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:00 pm
Forum: News & Events
Topic: Lunchtime TALK in Winchester 30 November 2017
Replies: 1
Views: 14103

Re: Lunchtime TALK in Winchester 30 November 2017

Would love to come to your talk but Western Isles a bit too far away. Can you tell me who painted the stunning pictures on the slide show please?
by Stuart
Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:31 pm
Forum: Personnel
Topic: Sidney Davis
Replies: 3
Views: 20501

Re: Sidney Davis

Hi Madrob - There is a Davis in a photo of my dad's HDML crew possibly in Ceylon. Don't know what No this boat is. Thread under Motor Launches........ 'ML 916 .... a long shot!' think its 4th page. Could be any Davis though there's no Christian name! Cheers Stu.
by Stuart
Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:05 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Hi Sarah - Read your post with interest. Pam and I and our families can understand your amazement and emotion at reading these accounts. I feel there is a good story here that should be told. There seem to have been six bodies recovered and identified from ML 916 your uncle being one. I suppose they...
by Stuart
Mon May 08, 2017 9:07 am
Forum: Forum & Web Site Feedback
Topic: Web Site main pictures
Replies: 6
Views: 24286

Re: Web Site main pictures

Hi again - Far from being 'unknown' I now see Brian Mullen was the official Commando War Artist! Very strong drawing and a tragic loss.
by Stuart
Mon May 08, 2017 8:54 am
Forum: Forum & Web Site Feedback
Topic: Web Site main pictures
Replies: 6
Views: 24286

Re: Web Site main pictures

Lovely picture Peter - I especially like the way Harold Garland handles the sky! In the family we have two paintings by Brian Mullen (possibly Commando) who unfortunately never survived the Normandy landings - I wonder if anyone has heard of this artist but I suspect he is another 'unknown'. Will tr...
by Stuart
Fri May 05, 2017 9:07 am
Forum: Forum & Web Site Feedback
Topic: Web Site main pictures
Replies: 6
Views: 24286

Web Site main pictures

Good Morning Admin - I would just like to say how much I enjoy the pictures you put up on the heading of the website. A lovely painting celebrating the Dutch contribution. I know there were many official War Artists but there were also lots of artists, professional and amateur who tried to put their...
by Stuart
Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:46 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Thanks Steve - There goes this months broadband! Stu.
by Stuart
Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:53 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Kevin - Can I recommend to you, Patrick Dalziel Job's book "From Artic Snows to Dust of Normandy" for another amazing account of someone's war. A great read and, you realise at the end, a moving, real life love story. You can find it, used, on Amazon very reasonably. Stuart
by Stuart
Sat Jan 21, 2017 8:47 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Kevin - Very many thanks for your Dad's memoirs, read through it this afternoon. Fascinating. I remember my father sitting in front of the TV watching the Test Match (when we were all in black and white!) and idly picking at something on his neck then producing a little chunk of shrapnel which he dr...
by Stuart
Sat Jan 21, 2017 9:23 am
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Kevin - We would love a copy of your dad's war records. I'll swap you the drawing of ML250 for it, if you can give me your address. Our Email is;- pam_and_stumacp@yahoo.com The memsahib, reading your posts over my shoulder, asks - Have you digitised your Dad's accounts (in case of fire etc), have yo...
by Stuart
Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:34 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Yet more thanks Kevin. I never knew this event was so well documented. I joined this thread just thinking it would be interesting for folks to know that it was my father, skipper of 916, they were talking about and how he survived after the War, never thinking for a moment that there were two eye wi...
by Stuart
Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:04 am
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Morning Gentlemen - Your wealth of knowledge never fails to amaze eg.- how did you know Dalziel-Job was in Orkney in 1942? I have to ask you how you became so interested in all this, as it is becoming clear to me that there were thousands more individuals in Coastal Forces than I realised and that t...
by Stuart
Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:52 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Correction:- Photo of crew in Ceylon back row should be Dunn not Bunn!
by Stuart
Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:46 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Continued;-
by Stuart
Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:38 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Some more photos. I am guessing that all the Tropical/Ceylon pics were taken by A.N.Other not my father. I remember him saying he had sent a lot of things back to Britain in a crate - which never arrived. He thought the carrying ship might have been torpedoed. Maybe there were photos or film in ther...
by Stuart
Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:57 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Don't know if you are still watching these posts Mark. I read through it all again last night and it looks like your father was on an MTB. I can imagine them stripping off the tubes to lighten ship and going full out to the Normandy beach and clearing off as fast as possible. Have you read Peter Sco...
by Stuart
Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:42 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Thanks Steve I have looked that up. We have one letter from my father from Ceylon, though he's not allowed to say where and no date but talks about the jungle and getting fresh water from a well on the island they were harboured in. We can't publish this letter as it is very personal to my mother an...
by Stuart
Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:18 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Steve you're a real gent - thanks from my brother and I. He has read the forum so far and can add some more information as he is five years older than me, and age 2 or 3 can just remember being taken on board ML916 and being shown the gun and dropping his bar of chocolate into the water as he was be...
by Stuart
Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:56 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Thanks Admin - Is there a data base which matches names of crew to ML ship Nos? I have my Father's service history from Personnel Support Admiralty which mentions ML 1082, 1288, 1306 and 1098 on which my Father served in Ceylon but I found nothing in the records. I wondered if you can help here? My ...
by Stuart
Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:40 pm
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
Replies: 96
Views: 385032

Re: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?

Hello Mark, Steve and Admin. I have just found this site and forum after searching for my father's war record. My father was Lt. George Gordon MacPherson - CO of ML 916 blown up in the Scheldt in Nov 1944. He told my older brother and myself that he was the first Navy ship to reach Antwerp and was g...

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