Royal Navy ships in Korean waters 1951- 1953

Created By Richard Feaver Over a month ago

Supporting UNSupporting ground and naval forces with naval aircreft operations

Alternating patrols with USN aircraft carriers supporting ground forces and UN operations at sea.

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Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 28 April 2016 17:11

George, my husband, didn't volunteer, in fact a short time before he was due to go, he was visiting friends in Yorkshire when his appendix burst and he spent six weeks in hospital there suffering from peritonitis. It was a year posting to Christmas Island for the RAF, so they sent him the next...

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John Daly • 28 April 2016 14:32

Good luck to anyone trying for compensation etc. I have posted somewhere before on this subject. In the mid 1950s the R.A.F. were offering all sorts of incentives to get personnel to volunteer for Christmas Island ready for the forthcoming Tests.
On our Squadron we a Flt. Lt. who hated me and put...

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Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 28 April 2016 09:28

John, My husband George Marner, served on Christmas Island in 1958/59. Our son and his wife also needed IVF treatment.

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John Lynch • 9 April 2016 19:15

Noted letter from Lee Rowe - I never experienced any problems - however I had 2 sons who both needed IVF treatment - one was told that it may have been the result of Christmas Island??

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Bob • 22 September 2015 21:58

I was on Christmas Island for Grapple X and Grapple Y working at the Joint Operations Center. Have an enlarged thyroid and currently engaged in my second fight with cancer.

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None • 26 August 2015 15:39

4185671 SAC Coop V. Thats me Served on the Island from July 58 to July 59. That was the Grapple Bird Op. like others I was exposed to what ever those bombs chucked out. Ive had stomach cancer and Im still kicking hell out of life. It seems that those who say,we must be obey !!, do not belieave we...

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Peter Lawrence • 12 May 2015 22:12

My father ALEC LAWRENCE RE was on the montebello island tests early 1950s .He died with parkinsons disease far too early

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John Lynch • 7 April 2015 10:12

I was on Christmas Island for the last 4 bombs 1958/59
Was engineer at CIBS - Radio Station - surviving OK at 80

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Taff • 21 February 2015 15:54

I was there from 1962 to 1963 and saw many H bomb tests during the US Operation Dominic. I note that these dates are outside the scope of your campaign.

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Cathy Stuart • 10 January 2015 20:31

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Royal Navy ships in Korean waters 1951- 1953

Supporting UNSupporting ground and naval forces with naval aircreft operations

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