starboard quarter of the Battleship HMS King George V. The photograph was taken by one of the Rajah's aircraft while anchored in Colombo Harbour. (Photograph, Crown copyright). This is the wartime ...

As an Able Seaman, he had set sail from Wallsend on the Tyne on board HMS Dorsetshire. They docked in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). On Saturday 4 April a warning came through that Japanese ...

It was VE Day -- 8 May 1945. I was 19, a first class stoker on HMS Colombo, pulling into Gibralter to refuel, returning from a two year stint in Sicily, Italy and Egypt. We were told that a dozen ...

After spending two years on HMS Matchless working mainly on the arctic ... and then to Ceylon and Colombo. During this journey I received a letter from my brother saying that our father had ...