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Fleet Air Arm
Photography Archive: The 824 Squadron Fleet AirArm
Photography Archive 1939-1944
by
Gordon "Knocker" White RNVR Rtd veteran of 824 Naval Air Squadron
Welcome to the Fleet Air Arm Photography Archive.
The purpose of this site is to preserve a little bit of history. I wanted to
make this site in the memory of the flyers in the fleet air arm that are
sadly no longer with us.
The photographs on this website were taken during
the time I served as a flyer in 824 squadron aboard the
carrier HMS Striker, and towards the end of the war when I served in
816 Squadron.
Many thanks also go to Jack Jarvis, one of my old
shipmates, for supplying some of the images and information. Jack served on
824 Squadron both in the Mediterranean, and the
western approaches. He was also involved in two Russian convoys, one to
Arch-Angel, and the other to Murmansk.
I hope you enjoy looking at the preserved
memories that are here on display as much as I enjoyed creating this archive.
Please feel free to forward any comments or suggestions for the site to
myself via
fleetairarm.archive@virgin.net
or leave a message on the guest book.
Fleet Air Arm
Photography Archive
http://www.hick.demon.co.uk/
http://freespace.virgin.net/fleetairarm.archive/
Last viewed: April 2001
HMS UNICORN
ASSOCIATION WEBSITE
By GEORGE W CATON
RN Rtd
This is a new personal site which is intended to
support family and friends research. It is
especially valuable for ex-service personnel who,by connecting to the Naval channels and
the Royal British Legion channel, will find valuable information. However, it
also acts as
an information base for my old friends or relations. I was born in 1933 and
named George William Caton. I joined the Royal Navy
at HMS Ganges as a 15 year old on the
5th May 1948. Our first ship. Well we were deposited on HMS Howe
as a temporary measure first. Then we joined HMS Unicorn in 1949 to 1951.
The Association was formed in 1988 by Edgar Bosworthick (Boz) a Chief Air
Artificer of the Unicorn's first commission. Edgar is also the Secretary of
the voluntary committee. There were three commissions, 1943-46; 1949-51;
1951-54 with the addition of HMS/M Unicorn from her commissioning.
There is only a registration fee of £5.00
sterling; A$13; C$11; NZ$18 + a little for postage, but no annual subscriptions.You will be able to contact almost 300
members when you receive your Nominal Roll.There is
also an auxillary list of 160. An Annual Reunion is
held at different locations, N.S.E or West to help shipmates to meet.
Membership includes FULL [those who served in her], ORDINARY [wives],
ASSOCIATE [ anyone who took transit or the relative
of a deceased ex-Unicorn or a relation of the member] or HONORARY [anyone who
has done a service for and their support of the Association is recognised by
its Committee].
The HMS Unicorn Association is a member of the
Federation of Naval Associates. We have members in Australia
and Canada, Tasmania,NZ and have been able to reunite shipmates from 45
to 58 years ago.
For further information/registration please write
to the membership/Social secretary - [please enclose S.A.E] Eleanor Bosworthick, 3 Arundel Close, Hemel
Hempstead.Herts. HP2 4QR, UK.
Tel: +44 01442 255821 .
HMS Unicorn
association website
http://www.btinternet.com/~george.w.caton/index.htm
Last viewed: April 2001
FLEET AIR ARM AIRCREWMANS
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS ONLINE
The Airewmen were the
successors to the pre-war and wartime Telegraphist Air Gunners (TAGs). It was
in early 1974 that the 'Aircrewman Branch' became a
reality. If you would like to know more about what the ACA can offer YOU,
please contact any of our Air Station reps., CPOACMN Alf Kitwood
on 771 Squadron SAR Flight, POACMN Tony Laws on 702 Squadron HQ Flight at
Portland or LACMN Rocky Sharp on 819 SAR Flight at Prestwick. Any readers who
know of a potential eligible member please let us know by emailing below or
through the Membership Secretary, Peter Williams on tel: +44
01752-815396.
Fleet Air Arm Aircrewmans
Association
http://www.omniforms.com/aca/links.html
Email: 
joes@slm.compulink.co.uk
Last viewed: April 2001
HMS GANGES ASSOCIATION
WEBSITE
 HMS Ganges Association Global
Online Members
This site included a register of '1218' On-Line ex HMS Ganges personnel as of
April 2001 including many who served in the Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy Air
Stations or in Aircraft Carriers 1939-1945.
HMS Ganges Association Website
http://www.hmsgangesassoc.org/members.html
Last viewed: April 2001
HMS Vincent Members You
can Contact by E-mail
HMS Vincent Association Website
http://www.hmsstvincentassoc.org/svaemail.htm
Last viewed: April 2001
CNAG members and their
contact addresses
http://www.ncf.ca/cnag/Nat-Membership.htm
Last viewed: April 2001
ShearwaterAviation
museum online members
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/awmuseum/email.html
Last viewed: April 2001
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11578/dads_ships.htm
This is a
personal home page about my father's Royal Naval career during the Second
World War. I realised in 1997 that I knew very little about that period in
his life and also discovered that WWII Royal Naval information on the Web was
not very comprehensive. I decided, as a result, to put together a site
dealing with the ships he was on and to add personal anecdotes as they
surfaced from the depths of his memory. This is a period he finds hard to
recall; to be honest, I think he has repressed most of the horror. Dad was 80
in December last year.
I encourage others to embark on a similar
undertaking as the numbers with first hand experience of this period are ever
diminishing.
If anyone can add any details, photos or personal
stories on my dad's ships, please e-mail
me. Any feedback is appreciated.
 Aircraft Carrier. Dad served from 12-05-46 to 25-09-46
The Navy ships of
Victor Johns
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11578/dads_ships.htm
Last viewed: April 2001
Created: 3-04-2001, Last Modified 3-05-2005
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