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676 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] Add a message Search the guestbook for crew names   brian e horner from 1061 utsalady,camano,wa,usa said... 02/09/2000  NULL  ERIC HORNER MY FATHER ERIC HORNER DIED ON THE BARHAM WHEN I WAS ELLEVEN MONTHS OLD.HE WAS A STOKER,I BEIIEVE HE SERVED ON THE SHIP FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS.ITS AMAZING TO KNOW THAT FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS CAPTAIN TIESENHAUSEN WAS LIVING SO CLOSE.I WISH I HAD KNOWN.THANK YOU SARA FOR THIS WEB SIGHT. Mike Barham from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada said... 31/08/2000  NULL  NULL I was looking for family tree information when i happened across this page. My immediate family originated in Coventry, and i am tracing ancestory back. I am glad to know this piece of history and will look for any links between its name and my background. Thank you. My condolences to any remaining survivors and their families. Diana O'Neill from Eastbourne , East Sussex said... 27/08/2000  NULL  David.N.MATTHEWS Hello, my father Lieut.David.N.MATTHEWS.RNR.was a survivor of H.M.S.BARHAM.Thankyou for setting up the guestlist.I have a casualty list sent to me when my father died in November 1987 with Wilfred Burton,ROYAL MARINE listed on it .This message is for Yvonne Simcock,Kidsgrove Staffs . I will keep looking at the site now that I have found it. Ron Nicholson from Portsmouth said... 18/08/2000  NULL  Charles Nicholson My father,Charles Nicholson, was a stoker P.O. lost in H.M.S Barham. Thank you Sara for developing this website in the memory of such a tragic loss of so many lives.I hope to visit Westminster Abbey in the near future now that I am aware of the book and candles there.My fathers name is on the Portsmouth War Memorial and also on the Memorial in Scarborough N.Yorkshire where he was born. Marc Tiley from London said... 14/08/2000  NULL  NULL The Barham's story is fascinating history and it is good to see it is kept alive. (I am researching a documentary for the BBC which includes teh attacke at Dakar in 1940) Bob ingram from Portsmouth said... 09/08/2000  NULL  Ernest "Tich" Edds My grandfather, AB Ernest "Tich" Edds now deceased was a survivor of the sinking. He served on Barham, 1925- 1928 and from 1938 till the end.I still have his copy of the roll of honour and a card from Constance Cooke, the captains wife in remberance dated 1944.I also have a photo which shows my Granfather with messmates P.Martin, Bill Elsey,and G Parker in Durban in 1941 after Barham was docked for repairs following bomb damage.He never went to sea again after the sinking and had great difficulty even talking about it right to the end of his life. Tim Honnor from Inverness said... 06/08/2000  NULL  Dick Edwards, Charlie Styles, Arthur Erskine Sherw How strange that HMS BARHAM seems suddernly to have cropped up in my life. In the lasy ten days I have had two print orders with the name BARHAM in them and on Saturday night was staying with a Commander Dick Edwards, RN (aged 92) in Cornwood Devon. He told me he had been Flag Lieutenant To Admiral Laycock in BARHAM in 1939. Then I passed Charlie Styles old house, also in Cornwood and went to harford Church. There I saw a brass plaque on the wall in memory of Surgeon Lieutenant Arthur Erskine Sherwell, lost in Action HMS BARHAM 25 November. Harford Church is our old family church and Sherwell must have been a local man. Does anyone know where his address might have been in the area in those days. And it was good to hear of Charlie Style again. I am writing to him! Tim Honnor thomas e harding from portsmouth england said... 01/08/2000  NULL  alan james harding thank you for an excellent website.my brother died on the barham,only 19 years old.his name was alan james harding,and he joined the navy as a boy seaman at st. vincent,gosport.I would be grateful for any news from anybody who knew him.his previous ship was h.m.s effingham,which he survived when it was sunk off norway. Frank Wade from West Vancouver, Canada said... 31/07/2000  http://www3.telus.net/FrankWade  Frank Wade I congratulate Sara O'Donohue for starting this web page to remember those brave sailors who died on the Barham. I served on the staff of C-in-C, Admiral Cunningham, as a cypher officer. I saw the whole of the sinking from the Admiral's flag bridge in HMS Queen Elizabeth, the flagship. I wrote a book about my Mediterranean experiences called "A Midshipman's War. See my home pages and read about sinking. Yvonne Simcock from kidsgrove, staffordshire said... 28/07/2000  NULL  Wilfred Burton Hi, what a very good informative site, I am looking for a Wilfred Burton, who we have all believed, to have died, when the Barham was sunk, but we cannot find his name anywhere associated with the Barham 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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