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…

Biographical Notes Mentioned in Watson Report: “……it is not possible to remark on the conduct of the senior officer or rating on some of the rafts, such as Lieutenant Milner…

                  It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of our fifth known survivor, John Miles. He was…

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