An old and special friend

Little Tommy, Eileen, Jimmy nd Michael at Stavangar

John, the admiral,Tom and Jimmy when we went to Bergen to selebrate with our Norwegian shipmates

Back from the battle with a trophy

Alf or to all of us Dicky

Alf, myself and Jack

Arthur Nugent, me,Arthur and Woody some of the boys of 6mess

I would like to dedicate this blog to my long time and special friend Jimmy.
I have known Jimmy for some 66 years, when we joined our first ship and went off into the Atlantic to fight the u-boat menace. We were the youth at that time. What we endured then are our memories and we still remember. For the past 20 years or so at this time of the year we have met together with old shipmates and their familees to attend the Commemorative Service held at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral to remember the Battle of the Atlantic , the longest battle of WW2, it lasted from da y one through to the last day.
We were unable to meet this year but we still remember old shipmates. I was looking through some photos the other day and decided to put just a few of them to think on.

It now appears that the photos are now not in the order that I intended,and nowthe third picture shows, from right to left, Jimmy, lettle Tommy, the Admiral and John, it was taken in Bergen when we went over to celebrate with our Norwegian shipmates. The destroyer that we served on was the senior officer ship of a mid ocean escort group which included 5 Norwegian corvettes.
Some of the old black and white pictures were taken on a little kodak camera that I bought well before the war, paid two shillings and sixpence for it, or 25p in todays money.

In the next few days a few of the local boys will be meeting up and swining the lamp over lunch and a few drinks . I am sure that they will all want to send you, Jean and the family thir very best wishes.

Ken.