I have my father's Naval records in front of me and it says, Pembroke - OrdSea - 4 Dec 43 - 6 Jan 44.
Later on the record it has Pembroke again - Able Seaman - and two dates in the same box, 4 Feb 44 and 20 Sep 44 - but only one 'end date' 20 Aug 46. My father also said he was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea at some point on, '647 gunboat'. There is a book somewhere about the boat, which I will look for now when I can and there is also a photograph of the boat that I come across now and again and put away again. I also have photographs which my father will have taken, of the crew of 647!! There are lot's of photographs in his album with the names, 'Flash', 'Bob', 'Jock Petts', 'Jock Canavan', 'Bud Abbot' and 'Mickey Mouse 64th'. Another has a few people on it and it says, Flash, Steve, Fred, Coxs, Jock. I have just looked through the album further and there are many, many more 'photo's and names, to be honest, too many to go through ay 2:09 in the morning, I will try to list the names, but some of them are very hard to read. One thing though, there is a photograph of a mine that was a dud, after much shooting trying to set it off, it was nicknamed 'Tinky Tonk'!! There are references to Greece and Yugoslavia and a photo of '566 being towed by us'. Hoping I can help someone, somewhere, See you later. Morskaj
