Tag Archives: WW2

An RNPS silver badge file in the National Archives

Posted on April 23, 2011 by G. A. Michael Sims

Late last year I was asked if I would like to give a short talk to the local Rotary Club about the Royal Naval Patrol Service. Flattered that anyone would think that I knew enough about RNPS to take it … Continue reading →

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Rotary East, Lowestoft

Posted on March 10, 2011 by G. A. Michael Sims

What nice people they are at Rotary East, Lowestoft. They recently invited me to talk to them for 20-30 minutes about the history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service, a branch of the Royal Navy which had been based at … Continue reading →

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Churchill’s Spearhead

Posted on July 12, 2010 by G. A. Michael Sims

John Greenacre, a currently serving officer (now retired, 6/5/11, ed.) and a colleague on the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre management team is the author of a recently published book on the development of Britain’s airborne forces during WW2, covering … Continue reading →

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Dunkirk anniversary

Posted on May 27, 2010 by G. A. Michael Sims

To coincide with the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk we have nearly 60 items containing accounts of the progress of the withdrawal or the experiences of the soldiers, sailors and airmen involved.

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Engineer and Novelist Nevil Shute (Norway) – A brief account

Posted on October 18, 2009 by G. A. Michael Sims

(…originally published in the ibooknet newsletter for October 2004) Nevil Shute Norway was born 17th January 1899 at Ealing, London, the youngest of two brothers and the son of a senior civil servant in the General Post Office. At an … Continue reading →

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Collecting Royal Naval Patrol Service books

Posted on October 18, 2009 by G. A. Michael Sims

(…originally published in the ibooknet newsletter for November 2002) A brief history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS) was a ‘navy within a navy’ during WW2. In 1939 much of Britain’s domestic freight distribution … Continue reading →

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