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by Stuart
Sat Jan 21, 2017 9:23 am
Forum: Motor Launches
Topic: A Long shot - ML 916 and ...?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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