Alfred Langton

[john langton]

SHIPS NAME AND SERVICE RECORD

Full Name

Alfred Langton

Discharge Book Number

R ******

Department

Deck, Gunner

Your Rank/Rating

Acting Able Seaman

Which Ships were you on and When

SS Baron Maclay 5/11/1940 to 29/11/40
SS Yewpark AKA Avonwood 17/12/1940 to 29/10/1941
SS Olev 13/11/1941 to 28/3/1942
SS British Progress 5/4/1942 to 2/9/1942
SS Jamaica Planter 7/9/1942 to 13/9/1942
SS Waroonga 14/9/1942 to 5/4/1943,This ship was torpedoed and damaged 4/4/1943 and hit again the day after and sank 5/4/1943. Dad was rescued.
SS Anthony Enright 24/7/1943 to 22/2/1944
SS American Salvor 13/3/1944 to 28/9/1944
Hms Queen Charlotte 20/1/1945 to 23/3/1945
Hms Dodman Point 5/10/1945 to 30/12/1945

Notes:

I am filling this out on behalf of my dad who served in the merchant navy on DEMS in convoy across North Atlantic from Halifax to Liverpool and all around Britain.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Thanks for this post John, it is important that we remember all those brave men who sailed the seas at that time.
Thank you.
Des


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Lest We Forget

[happy daze john in oz]

Sad thing Des but much of our war time history will be lost.
History as it is taught concerns mainly with major conflicts with armed services.
The 'Wavy navy' as it was often refed to may not get such recognition.
So all efforts by any of us to preserve the history is paramount.

[Ivan Cloherty]

The 'Wavy navy' as it was often refed to may not get such recognition.

John the term 'Navy Wavy' was never a term used for the Merchant Navy, the term 'Wavy Navy'refers to those members of the RNVR who served in the Royal Navy and were usually ex Merchant Seamen and whose lower arm stripes of position of rank within the RN were wavy stripes on the cuff rather than straight stripes on the cuff. Ex members of the RN who were not compulsory called up and who were members of the RNR wore the normal straight stripes of rank.

For non serving members
RNVR Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
RNR Royal Navy Reserve

I was RNVR at one time in my non-illustrious career.
You could be a member of the RNVR as a non Merchant Seamen but you would have had peacetime (and wartime) bouts of service on RN ships or RN shore establishments

Just an observation