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Think I’ve mentioned my uncle served on HMS Warwick during WW2. However her story began in WW1:
‘Warwick commissioned on 21 February 1918, joining the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Dover Patrol, seeing action in the last months of the First World War. She took part in the raid on Zeebrugge on the night of 22/23 April, the attempt by the RN to blockade Germany’s U-boat force stationed in Flanders, acting as flagship of Vice-Admiral Roger Keyes. Warwick help to lay smoke screens to cover the assault forces, and then covered the withdrawal of the small craft carrying the survivors of the crews of the block ships.’
She was sunk by U-413 just off Trevose Head in Cornwall on 20 February 1944. RIP Fred.
Think I’ve mentioned my uncle served on HMS Warwick during WW2. However her story began in WW1:
‘Warwick commissioned on 21 February 1918, joining the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Dover Patrol, seeing action in the last months of the First World War. She took part in the raid on Zeebrugge on the night of 22/23 April, the attempt by the RN to blockade Germany’s U-boat force stationed in Flanders, acting as flagship of Vice-Admiral Roger Keyes. Warwick help to lay smoke screens to cover the assault forces, and then covered the withdrawal of the small craft carrying the survivors of the crews of the block ships.’
She was sunk by U-413 just off Trevose Head in Cornwall on 20 February 1944. RIP Fred.
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JH: Interesting stuff, Steve.