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15/2/2022 at 12:59pm
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My grandfather, a navy ships writer was evacuated to the IOM during WW2 with the Portsmouth signals training school he was working at to HMS St Georges which was based at a holiday camp with a swimming pool. Would love to know if it still exists as a holiday camp.
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16/2/2022 at 1:31pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 13/2/2022
Costs a bomb to get there which has always put us off.
Us too. It’s somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit.
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Thank you for your research Fiona, I never met my grandfather, I discovered that he went to Gallipoli in WW1 in an old battleship converted into a troop ship and spent the rest of the war on Malta where the wounded were dropped off on the way back. He wasn't wounded but I guess he was of more value there than on a ship going home to be scrapped.
In WW2 he rejoined the navy and was sent to HMS St Vincent, Portsmouth and then the whole school was evacuated to HMS St Georges on IOM. HMS St Vincent was set up as a response to the number of boys killed at the Battle of Jutland in WW1 when British battleships exploded, (hence the poem "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck"), boys would be trained in signaling ashore in future. HMS St Vincent is now a comprehensive school.
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