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Description
Mr. Gill describes getting right back into the service and winding up in England, where he was assigned to HMS Sheffield, an RN battleship.
Transcription
And then I went to, then I went to England, and like I said the cook is just like a nurse. Always a job. So they asked me if I want to go on the Sheffield. Sheffield was part of destroyer and trooper and con, and supply. So we went to Australia. Sydney, Australia to get I believe was two hundred and some, army person, and then store. Food you know to mean when, what (inaudible) said about mutton. Yeah ,we had the mutton. It was green on top, on top of the boiler. And then we come back and then it was kind of rough. But the ship was well equipped, I mean that was a battle ship. We had to go the coast up Mediterranean, the coast of Spain which the submarine was there waiting for them, too. And we went through the Suez Canal and then down to Indian Ocean and from there, from the Indian Ocean we went to Burma. I went to Burma on the way back, get supplies because the British Army was there and also the Canadian Army was there. And then the Air Force. It was an Air Force base. And then there was a supply ship. So we stopped on the way back and then make a trip and I was in North Africa. Whatever they need. I was on supply ship most of the time. I mean, and then I beginning to be more experienced and they want somebody more experienced so we went, the (inaudible) was there in North Africa waiting for the supply truck and so on to go to Sicily. So, when they get the supply then they took to Sicily. That was then after 1944, after they land, after we land in Normandy. Yeah, so I was on the supply ship when we land in Normandy too.
Catégories
Back into Service on HMS Sheffield
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
Second World War
Emplacement géographique
Pacific Ocean
Personne interviewée
Gil Kenny
Branche
Merchant Navy
Occupation
Cook
Durée
02:16