Postby Brian Holmes » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:01 pm
MGB_333 Woodnut & Co Ltd, St Helens, Isle of Wight 16/10/41
For an action with E Boats off Smith’s Knoll 28/3/43
DSC TLt Donald Gould Bradford RNVR
MID TSLt Frank Lambert Hewitt RNVR
DSM LMtrMch Roland Desmond Gilbert P/MX98724
DSM LSea Joseph John Phillips P/BD/X1349
MID AB Victor Goldsmith C/JX316843
DSM AB George William Jennings P/JX275627
DSM Ord Sidney Paxton C/JX317497
MID OTel Norman Henry Towe D/JX271930
For the rescue of survivors from HMS Daffodil, mined off Dieppe, 17/3/45
MID TLt Alan Yates RNVR
MID ACMtrMch Joseph Wood C/MX67442
Known Crew
TLt Donald Gould Bradford RNVR TSLt 27/5/40 HMS Malvernian (armed boarding vessel) (ship attacked by aircraft and abandoned; picked up by a Spanish fishing vessel and interned, but later escaped) 17/12/40 – 19/7/41 TLt 27/5/41 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches) 8/10/42 Commanding Officer MGB 333 9/42 - 9/43 TALtCdR 1/9/43 Commanding Officer MTB 617 and Senior Officer 31st MTB Flotilla 9/43 Senior Officer 55th MTB Flotilla in MTB 632. Staff Officer, Coastal Forces, British Assault Area (Courseulles) 8/44 TACdR 1944 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches, etc.) 10/9/44 Coastal Forces Mobile Unit 2 [HMS Fox (Lerwick)] 4/6/45 DSO 1944, Two DSCs 1943, DSC 1944 Two MIDs 1944 Born in Bolton 1912 and died in 1995
TLt P L Stobo RNVR Commanding Officer 5/5/43
TLt Alan Yates RNVR Commanding Officer 21/12/43 MID 1945. Previously First Lieutenant in an MTB
TSLt Frank Lambert Hewitt RNVR First Lieutenant MGB 333 1943. Later First Lieutenant in an MTB
TSLt W G Dalziel RNVR First Lieutenant 12/7/43
TSLt P D Cross RNVR First Lieutenant 1/10/43
ACMtrMch Joseph Wood C/MX67442
LMtrMch Roland Desmond Gilbert P/MX98724
LSea Joseph John Phillips P/BD/X1349
AB Victor Goldsmith C/JX316843
AB George William Jennings P/JX275627
Ord Ernest Bowes P/JX 275195 Died on Tuesday 6 January 1942 cause unknown Buried in Baldersby (St. James) Churchyard Yorkshire
Ord Sidney Paxton C/JX317497
OTel Norman Henry Towe D/JX271930
War Activities
16th MGB Flotilla – Based at Great Yarmouth
MGB 319, MGB 325, MGB 329, MGB 331, MGB 332, MGB 333, MGB 334 and MGB 335
1/42 At Great Yarmouth
28-9/3/43 An action with E Boats off Smith’s Knoll
HMS Blencathra, HMS Windsor MGB 321 and MGB 333, ambush 7 Boats of the Second. S-Flotilla attacking Convoy FS.1074. MGB 333 rams S 29. “We hit her about 20ft from the stern and I felt my boat rise up and partly ride over her - and then the E Boat broke. The stern came off and slid down my starboard side - we had gone straight through (Memoirs of Donald Gould Bradford quoted in his Daily Telegraph obituary 8/7/95)
17/3/45 Rescue of survivors from HMS Daffodil, mined off Dieppe.
Post War Fate
10/45 For disposal