The A38 village of Lee Mill where life is dwarfed by Tesco Maybe we’ll once again be the pretty little village straddling the River Yealm, with its big heart and its long history
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Charles Paris was born in Valletta in 1921. At 18, in January 1940, without his parents’ knowledge and before waiting for his conscription papers, he joined the Royal Navy as an assistant steward at the Naval Depot. After two months training, he was drafted with other Maltese cooks and stewards to the County Class cruiser HMS Sussex, which had made a brief stop at Malta on its way from South Africa to the UK.
Leading steward Charles Paris in June 1940.
The vessel docked in Liverpool in March for a two-month refit and then joined the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow. But the ship developed a propeller fault and proceeded to the Clyde in Scotland for repairs. On the night before it was due to leave on September 18, 1940, at about 1am, a lone German bomber dropped three bombs on Yorkhill Quay, one of which fell on the cruiser, which fully loaded with ammunition.
Royal Navy phrases you hear in everyday Plymouth conversation
Do you ever use the phrases piping hot and feeling groggy ?
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Royal Navy Christmas chaos strike threat withdrawn
Staff employed by Serco Marine in Plymouth decided to postpone strikes at Devonport Dockyard, the Unite union said
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