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723 messages posted to the guestbook Page: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] ( 46 ) [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] Add a message Search the guestbook for crew names   Karen Tompkins from Kitchener, Ontario Canada said... 11/04/2007  Alfred E. Williams Hello, Came across this site. My grandfather Alfred E. Williams went down with the Barham. My father was only eight months old when he lost his father. I have told my dad of this site. It is interesting to read, as I knew nothing of my grandfather and the circumstances of how the ship went down. Lee Roberts from Hastings said... 08/04/2007  Archie Mitchell hi my great grandad archie mitchell died when hms barham went down. does anybody have any information,pictures or stories or anything about him. please email eelstrebor@tiscali.co.uk thanks. Joanne Clark from South Shields said... 07/04/2007  William Jager Hi all, my grandad was a seaman on the Barham, and had just turned 21 a couple of weeks before the Barham went down, would anyone have ANY info regarding my grandad? photos, stories, anything. Thanks Joanne Clark (Grand daughter of William Jager, Survivor) Geoffrey Wearmouth from UK said... 02/04/2007  Melvin Wearmouth It is sad to relate that Phil John Turner, cameraman who filmed the demise of HMS Barham, died March 7 2007. His obituary appears in The Times Online today and an obituary appeared in the Guardian on 24th March 2007. Dianne from Newfoundland said... 29/03/2007  Raymond Somerton Hi i was wondering if you have any photos of my Great Uncle Raymond in uniform if so could you send them to me by email if you don\'t mind i would greatly appreciate it i have no photos of him in his uniform and he was my life. Thank You. Dianne Vernon Smith from UK said... 27/03/2007 My uncle Harold Smith went down with the Barham. He went in the Navy as a boy and was killed aged just 18. I know its a long shot but does anyone remember him and even more a long shot does anyone have a photo? Susan F Crampton from Ireland said... 25/03/2007  Sidney Collins, deceased I found your excellent website on the internet & the information on it is most interesting. My connection with HMS Barham is a table! My mother\'s first marriage was to Sidney Collins, a carpenter, who served on HMS Barham & was lost at sea when she sank in 1941. I remember my mother telling me that he was told to modify the wardroom table and his CO suggested that he should make a small table from the offcut for his new home in Gosport as they had recently married. I live in Ireland now and that piece of Barham is still a useful table and it is also a link with naval history. Whenever we are in UK a visit to Portsmouth is a \'must\' and I would like to join the Association. My husband has built a scale model of HMS Widgeon (a Kingfisher class corvette) and now I am trying to persuade him to build one of HMS Barham. Geoff Wearmouth from UK said... 22/03/2007  Melvin Wearmouth I don't think I'll be signing the Helen Duncan petition. She made a delicate situation worse. An easy trick to pull off in Portsmouth. A good site for those interested in all history is Google's News archive. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en Use the advanced search. There are Time magazine reports of Dakar and although most American newspapers observed the news blackout until the 27th January 1942 some smaller ones reported on the 13th January that Berlin radio had broadcast a report (recorded by United Press) that the Barham had been sunk the previous year. Andy Fittes from Cannock Staffs said... 21/03/2007  Charles Fittes Just wondering if anyone else caught the Channel 4 News last night ? There was a piece on Helen Duncan and a campaign by her relatives on the Downing Street web site for her to recieve a pardon for her conviction for witchcraft . She was imprisoned and sentenced for stating she had a 'vision' that the Barham had sunk prior to the official release of the news . They also showed the clip of the sinking and summarised the events of 25th November 1941 . The petition is via the below email address and closes on the 22nd April . Andy Fittes (Son of Charles Fittes , Survivor) petitions.pm.gov.uk James William jackson from Galston, Ayrshire said... 19/03/2007  Jim Samuels Mr. Samuels was my divisional Officer at HMS Ganges in 1956 and was an inspiration to an unruly bunch of boys. If he should see this or you can inform him that I still have a penny that he hit twice with a .22 rifle whilst on the range. Add a new message to the guestbook name: email: homepage: crew names: location: your message: validate your post by typing the letters into the box

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