Hello Karen
There's a Gilbert Richardson referenced within the thread
Geoffry Wallace Kitching, who is listed as a Radio Officer onboard
Gay Viking, one of the blockade running gun boats that went back and forth from the UK to Sweden. Might this be a possible fit? and do you know if he was ever a radio officer?
Just to add to that, the National Archives records for
Merchant Navy Awards shows a Gilbert Richardson of the rank Second Radio Officer, who was awarded an MBE, but as a crew member on MV
Hopewell — another of the blockade runners — which was originally MGB
504.
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