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Steve davies
November 11, 2013 at 7:37 pm
Hello, my father inlaw said he was on a convoy to malta that a movie was made about. His name was ab Denis cook from Bristol. Steve Davies red deer Canada. All the best Steve.
andy Britton
January 6, 2014 at 10:10 pm
My Uncle was on a minelayer Welshman on malta convoys sadly was torpedoed on 1/2/43 he never came back aged 22
Michael montebello
September 4, 2015 at 9:49 am
I was 13 years old and I was a witness when the remaining 5 ships arrived in Malta on the 13th- 14th the 15 th of August 1942 I was at the water front under front under the bastion of st.lucia.and when the ship Melbourne star, discharge the cargo came and anchor right in front my shelter,and was there for about 2 or 3 weeks and I use to go on board the ship and found my way to officer messroom pantry and bring some food to my family as we were starving and I remember the day before the ship was goiing to sail, captain Mac farlane made an open ship for us to go bourd, to meet the crew ,that’s my memory of (operation pedestal ) .montyy@icloud .com
Charlie Connor
September 19, 2016 at 6:50 pm
My uncle left Malta on HMS Traveller a submarine to attack An Italian port but was mined by the Italians,don,t no much else if anyone has any links cheers….
Tony Bott
April 28, 2020 at 6:08 pm
My dad was on HMS Nelson. I took him to Malta for a reunion when they all got a medal. I had a copy of the book about the convoy and I got all the lads to sign it. I feel I should do something with it but I don’t know what. Any ideas?
Obviously I am not trying to sell it I just want people who understand what it represen S to be able to see it
Dr Robert Fisher
May 6, 2020 at 3:37 pm
My father, Dr Zygmunt Fischer ,Polish by birth, was a medical officer in the British Merchant navy and the medical officer on MV Troilus on the Malta convoy in 1942 . I remember him telling me that he had been on one of the other convoy ships whose engine failed . He was transferred to the Troilus and looked around to see his previous ship bombed and sunk .
They rescued from the sea a German pilot whose plane had beed shot down ..
He was given a book inscribed by the government of Malta representing the people of Malta thanking him and the other sailors on the convoy for the delivery of much needed supplies .,
He subsequently transferred to the Royal Australian navy and saw actioin in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands before settling in Perth Western Australia after the war ended . He was the Royal Flying doctor in North Western Australia for about 2 years and went on to specialise in Thoracic Medicine and particularly the treatment of Tuberculosis .
Dr Robert Fisher (The Fischer anglicised by my father post war as it was a German spelling similar to Battenberg – converted to Mountbatten )
John breen
January 19, 2021 at 11:03 am
My father was engineer on the Troilus in the Harpoon convoy