Monthly Archives: October 2012

RNPS Commando – Petty Officer Harold Hiscock

Posted on October 21, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

I was recently talking to a colleague, a retired British Army Major who now leads battlefield tours in Europe and who had been investigating the records of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, in what was East Germany. He had come across a … Continue reading →

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RNPS Silver Badge File (II)

Posted on October 21, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

On delving deeper into the file about the Royal Naval Patrol Service Silver Badge in the National Archives (the account of the discovery of which was first published in the RNPS Newsletter), we find it lays to rest some of … Continue reading →

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Fr. Anthony E. Sketch

Posted on October 11, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

On 10th October we said goodbye to Fr. Tony Sketch who had been our parish priest for nearly twenty years and who had, in his own words and after a long illness, ‘gone home to God’. The formal occasion of … Continue reading →

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