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Author Archives: G. A. Michael Sims
AGM at the Kitchener
Last night I attended the the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre in my capacity as one of the trustees. Held at the Centre at 10, Kirkley Cliff, Lowestoft we heard the chairman of the trustees, … Continue reading
May we please have our description back?
Did anyone spot Jim Hinck’s article on his ViaLibrian blog in June? I am afraid I only came across it a month or so later but it’s well worth reading, about the plagiarism of book catalogue descriptions. I rather like … Continue reading
‘A Passage to Sword Beach’ by Brendan A. Maher
One of the joys of selling second-hand books is the opportunity to read your stock. When cataloguing I try to summarise the content of all our non-fiction but occasionally you come across one that you dip into and just can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Book reviews, Navy, World War 2
Tagged Coastal Forces, HMML137, HMS Cardiff, HMS Jason, Minesweeping, Navy, Normandy, WW2
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P.A.D.? – help please!
‘WAR’ was a series of ‘restricted’ pamphlets issued fortnightly by the British Army Bureau of Current Affairs from September 1941 until just after the end of WW2 which provided information to officers of the army about progress of the war … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Help please, World War 2
Tagged ABCA, Army, Explosives, Ordnance, PAD, WW2
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Robert S. Arbib Jnr. – Here we are together
I have only recently discovered the recollections of an American serving with 820th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Staff Sergeant Robert S. Arbib, Jnr., called ‘Here we are together’. Robert Arbib relates his experiences in Great Britain during WW2 when he and … Continue reading
RNPS Commando – Petty Officer Harold Hiscock
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
Posted in Navy, Royal Naval Patrol Service, World War 2
Tagged Harold Hiscock, HMS Europa, Navy, Newfoundland, RNPS, Sachsenhausen, Special forces, WW2
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RNPS Silver Badge File (II)
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
Posted in Navy, Royal Naval Patrol Service, World War 2
Tagged Lowestoft, Navy, RNPS, Silver Badge, WW2
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Fr. Anthony E. Sketch
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
Posted in Lowestoft & District, R.I.P.
Tagged Church, Death of friends, Fr. Tony Sketch, Lowestoft, Our Lady Star of the Sea
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Lowestoft ChurchFest
Now that the event has finished I have edited this post slightly to bring it up to date but an amazing couple of weeks has come to an end. In that time some 38 churches in the district from the … Continue reading
Lady Emma Kitchener, LVO
At the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre we were delighted to learn that Lady Emma Kitchener, aka Lady Fellowes of West Stafford, has agreed to be our new Patron following the death of her uncle, and our previous Patron, Lord … Continue reading