Tag: Shipmates Submissions

There’s mismusters, slop chits, tot time and pay There’s rising and shining and hitting the hay There’s thickers and strongers and neaters as well

I’ll tell you if I may, because I believe remembrance is not only for one day…. I wear it for the fallen, and for

There’s a village they call Shotley to the East of Ipswich Town; The port of Felixstowe across the way. There’s a concrete ship called

Thou shalt not scrounge, neither shalt thou swing the lead, lest they resting place be the deep waters upon which thou sail. Thou shalt

He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the RNA, telling stories of the past Of

In the beginning was the word, and the word was God and all else was darkness and void without form. So God created the

My father joined the regular Army at the age of 14 in 1904. He had left school, was an orphan and saw his future

On the 1st July this year, I was very fortunate and privileged in being able to attend the service to commemorate the Centenary of

Black Tot Day (July 31, 1970) is the name given to the last day on which the Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily

Naval Warfare in World War I was mainly characterized by the efforts of the Allied Powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, to