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700 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] Add a message Search the guestbook for crew names   Trevorr Mills from somerset said... 14/12/2005  NULL  NULL My great grandfather served on the Barham in WW1. Just wondered if anyone knew where i could get a framed picture of the ship? Its a birthday pressy and would be a special suprise. Any help would be appreciated. I take it is the same ship... which was in battle of Jutland. Many thanks Steph Eacock from Redditch said... 12/12/2005  NULL  NULL It would be wonderful if anyone who knew my Grandad got in contact with me, I would love to know what he was like. I also saw a message from a Helen Graham who said that Albert John Colley was her Great Uncle, so if you want to get in contact with me it would be wonderful to hear from a 'long lost relative'. John Edge from Market Drayton said... 01/12/2005  NULL  George Wells My mother recently passed away so I inherited here photos and amongst them were ones of her cousin - George Wells. She also had a pendant containing a photo of George on one side and one of herself and Reg, my father her husband, on the other. I reget I did not look this site up on the Barham whilst my mother was alive. I am interested in chatting to anyone who knew George and any relatives (who obviously would be distant relatives of mine). Please Email me. Many thanks: John Edge Warren Kendall Farrow from Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire,HP9 1AF said... 22/11/2005  NULL  NULL I would like to know if it would be possible to take up his banner and in my own small way carry forward the memory of H.M.S BARHAM.My Gran received the dreaded Telegram saying that he was lost believed dead.Then,one that he had survived. Dr Alasdair A. Forbes from Balmedie Aberdeenshire said... 11/11/2005  NULL  NULL I have a great photo of HMS Barham taken during a visit to Shetland. She is at Anchor in Lerwick harbour. You can see this by visiting the Shetland Museum website, and, I believe, order copies. I consider it an honour to own this, and have it on display in my surgery. I will never forget the huge debt we owe to these men, who gave all for our freedom. Naval historians may also find other photos of interest on the Shetland Museum site, eg HMS Rodney Paul Burgess from Homewood, Illinois, USA said... 01/11/2005  NULL  NULL My best to the survivors and their families, and the families of those lost in HMS Barham. God Bless you all. The United States has not forgotten the valor of her greatest ally. Frances Nash from Hythe said... 24/10/2005  NULL  Arthur Howe My Great Uncle was O/S Arthur Howe, youngest son of Ernest & Nellie Howe of Ryde IOW. Unfortunately, my Grandmother destroyed all photos of him in her latter years. My mother faintly remembers a young man in unifirom sitting with her under the table Morrison Shelter as she was only 5 when the Barnham went down. My Grandmother was understandibly very bitter. They received his letters telling of how he would be home for Christmas, on the same day that they received word that he was missing. 2 weeks later they were told he was presumed killed. His last letters, almost a voice from the grave continued to arrive into the new year. The family refused to attend the memorial services at Southsea as a way of protesting about the handling of the news. Years later, the use of the sinking scenes in TV programmes caused fresh pain to my Grandmother. A site such as this would, I think have helped her. Thank you. Frances Nash David Critchley from Fort Saskatchewan Alberta Canada said... 21/10/2005  NULL  Charles William Taylor L/Stoker Charles William Taylor was my uncle. He survived to also serve on the HMS Ajax, and also on the HMS Rhododendron on the "Murmansk Run". I haven't seen him since 1949 when we emigrated to Canada, but my family always had fond memories of him. My mother, (of course), knew a lot more about his youthful antics than we ever found out. Mary W K. from ontario, canada. said... 11/10/2005  NULL  Holly R. Whitehouse In memory of my father, Engineer Commander Holly R. Whitehouse lost in the sinking of HMS Barham November 24 1941. Sue Harrison-Stone from Chesham, Bucks said... 16/09/2005  NULL  William Harrison I was so pleased to discover that there was so much about the Barham. My Uncle who I did not know was lost when the ship went down. I remeber my Mother , Bill's elder sister said that they received a letter to say that the Ship had been lost and that Bill had died. She said that her Mother had gone to her bedroom and cried for hours then not spoken about the loss after that. I assume now I know some of the history that was because they were told not to discuss the loss. I am so glad that the name of my Uncle still lives on because I had thought I was the only person alive to have any knowledge of him. And that the history of the Barham is so vividly recorded. My Uncle was called William(Bill) Harrison and I now discover he was a leading seaman from your web page. My Mother used to say that he was in the sick bay when the ship was sunk. At their last port he had been playing football and broken his ankle so was hospitalised when the ship went down. I seem to remeber that my Mother had said he had married a girl from Glasgow but I don't know when or if there were any children. Last year at the Remembrance Service at my little country church I had put a poppy in a cross that was put on the steps of the war memorial in his memory. It is a comfort that the knowledge of these men and their ship will live on. 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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