Royal Navy Survivors

 Biographical Notes One of three survivors remaining on his raft with Marine W Gill and Sgt-Major MacCauley. Photo taken in January 1945.

Biographical Notes Mentioned in Watson Report: Spotted periscope on 24/11. "He showed great strength of character, both by his unstinted expenditure of energy on various tasks and by the cheering…

 Photo taken in HMS Saltash, Port Said, 1939 Biographical Notes Mentioned in Watson Report: "……it is not possible to remark on the conduct of the senior officer or rating on…

Three survivors together in 2002 - left to right, Bill Gill, John Miles and Jim Davies; John and Jim were on the same raft.            …

 Biographical Notes Mentioned in Watson Report: "Both these boys  showed a very cool and courageous spirit throughout the period spent on the raft. Neither uttered a single word of complaint and…