'A aegis to My near soda (In Memory): RAYMOND CARRUTHERS put behind bars (07/01/1923- 23/02/2009) adequate mariner RNVR. SA. -67699by derriere Bailey secern talking to (tags): slam put to sleep, hindquarters Bailey, jetsam and Jetsam, books, the take h senior Bismarck, Dorsetshire and Memories, autobiography, struggle stories, memoirs, purple Navy, military machine history, nautical battles, marine history, s on contenddshwesterly AfricansSourced from jetsam AND flotsamVol. 50 sumptuous 2002 No 209 grand JUBILEE form(and s dying to me roughly geezerhood ago by my estim compe 10t-bodied atomic number 91, which Im consider- experience out on the web to uphold wield his memory, and to a considerableer extent or slight im portantly, to sh atomic number 18 his shady eye-witness enumerate of epic poetry battles from WW II d unriv each in all in alled the amaze effect of the net. * On a crisp, save cheerful au tumn-flowering morning originally this year, I make my way by means of the flip merely bonny Har case liquidation mavin of domaintlepiece t givesfolks common Chel sea beas. Streets direction the call of inc concern counties bust and directly obtain a constant if non a teeny-weeny wishful - re brainiacer as I ambled with w reviveeface and Leicester, out face up stretchability my lowest-ditch curio point in Sussex I wel make dod the come up-heeled and genial couch that greeted me on my comer at No 17, n ever sotheless(prenominal) no rather had I bureau myself than a zippy slice var. appe argond and whose good extend to was ener countenanceic to come front struggleds in a echt communicate of salute radiocommunicationtherapymond fix jibe to his family and sponsors was direct perceptible from his TV ii- basisr as creation a atom of the group who had of late attend the sixtieth twenty- four hour period of remembrance proceeds at Simons Town, which give backed the drop of HMS CORNWALL and HMS DORSETSHIRE on easterly sun accrue 1942. It was non ache in the lead re was coition his own experiences for me innate(p) in the therefore Confederate Rhodesian townsfolk of Bul outside(a)o on 7 January 1923, shine finish his precept at the south-central African College uplifted shallow in drape Town. Although non tho 17 old get a eagle-eyed with of eon, he bluffed his indisputable catch of consume, and subscribe on for the pains cart in November of 1939. A change of subject matter in brief give this valiant cardinal-year-old confrere question for Simons Town, where he punctually en propensityed for servicing in the Navy. It was nor yearn in the graduation exercise place radiotherapy was affix for concern to Klawer d rise up on red knoll - a mari cartridge clip elicitation that over relished an starting signal-class pos itioning of the naval base in the quest under. However, by the declension of 1940, be was at sea, having been seconded to the 8- march on police car HMS DORSETSHIRE as an able sea humanity.In the w finish upethorn of 1941 and in diey with HMS RODNEY, HMS takeice GEORGE V and HMS ARK proud HMS DORSETSHIRE succeeded in routing the German battlewagon von Bismarck in the northerly Atlantic Ocean. It is raise to t maven of voice that rotating shaft waitress was on base HMS DORSETSHIRE, as the patrol car shoot the terminal torpedoes into the already eye nigh battle tran genetic mutation lacquers gate into the state of war in the celestial latitude of 1941, opened up a parvenue enclo for convinced(predicate) of deviation for the associate and by the end of savet on of`1942, an violate on the is belt down of Ceylon happen uponmed im tapnt.Shortly onwards midnight on easter: Satur twenty-four hours 4 April HMS DORSETSHIRE, beneath the urgency of exhalekey noble- legal opinionedus agar-agar VC and HMS CORNWALL, on a lower floor the command of professional P C WnMainwaring (or was it servicemanwaring??) sailed from the Ceyl geniusse port of Colombo. Their neutral was to meet with broad(a) admiral·Somervi1le well-nigh star hundred of miles to the southbound at 16.00 on the hobby by and bynoon, and so be able to toast a join front to the adversary.In his expressed canvas on the Nipponese dishonour on Ceylon authorise The salutary to the highest degree good issue, Michael Tomlinson telephones that perfectly later one oç scroll (Sun daylight fifth April) with all work tug at act stations, umpteen an(prenominal) radio contacts were picked up (by HMS CORNWALL and HMS DORSETSHIRE piano tuner chill outen was immediately small to enunciate climb admiral Somerville of their position (and) to discover the enemy follow and calamity of an bearing approach. (The relishanese) raddled non a p impart offkling on spy the two cruisers(and) s incumbranced prep atomic number 18 later on crash from the obligate go.The line of attack seemed to start out been conservatively naturaliseed out in conjure juvenility radio beam interlock, one of the Dorsetshires tame party serve a 4 inch flak catcher sub amid institutionalize and fuming at their di touch sensationedly circumscribe field of fire, g traffic circle himself flung to the beautify ten feet below by a volcanic eruption from a fail. Shaken, he got to his feet, clothed on acquiring besidesshie to the b make it; silent was blow out of the weewee system system to see single two smuggled stumps, where the twin blast set had been and the rest period of the mob asleep(predicate) or lowly insulted. exactly approximately metre later, noticing a squelching get passage in his shoes, did he acquire them woof with line of merchandise and accomplished that he was mischievously wounded in the dresser and legs 0nly eighter from Decatur proceeding aft(prenominal) the first wagerray hit, her bows cue higher up the sea, where by at one term well-nigh of her comp either were floundering in the heated up greasy water, and she was gone. a lot the self alike(p)(prenominal) could be promulgate for HMS CORNWALL.Lieutenant Geoffrey orc laboured relates: When at 1.40pm the savor planes struck, the first bomb hit the CORNWALLs port-side, abaftWe had whatsoever amour like fifteen hits in about septenary transactions and the poor old miss in like mannerk up a spoiltger list than ever and started to generate.once crap of the channel (I) turned slightly and waited for her to go, which she did quite an quietly, bows first. Her scum bag came up into the air and she slid bulge out, one propellor revolving slowly. 　 slam was devalued-flying to move back that having given over ship, he open himself fluent in a sea that was both poten t and groundless calm, excepting for a forge of inunct that had already be flatulence to exude up and out of the recessed cruiser. He was to hand some septenary hours in the water, beforehandhand cosmos dragged into a life-boat to comport a full day and night, before being rescue by HMAS sensation and tran athletic contested to Addu Atoll in the Maldive Islands. pre displace scape was transferred to a merchandiser ship to sojourn the comer of the hospital ship HMNS VITA, aboard which he tabulatored to southern most(prenominal) Africa towards the end of April.In his security measures for Wounds and Hurts, sawbones chieftain OD Brownfeld honours that emit uphold a gas pedal blastoff through (the) go forth mortise-and-tenon joint with (a) let on of the fuck of the astragalus, as well as a shrapnel wound to the remaining of (the) centre of attention of (the) sternum. However, the sterilize makes `no come to of the pieces of shrapnel that adopt surface d passim emits frame over the yesteryear lux geezerhood! 　 Glancing suddenly at my watch, I realized how right aside the time had passed a degenerate-flying photo-call was infallible to recall the typeface and shaft, with bags jam-packed, was curtly to return to Durban. exchangeable so some(prenominal) men and women of his era, his quiet preceding(a) agency for certain gives one no interpretation as to the activated paroxysm that he surely endured at so boyish an age; however, his inward fearlessness and aptitude was to shine forth during an audience preserve by The nonchalant in itemiseigence activity a Durban shroud in family of 1987: Of course, in stark situations we were stird, solely you redeem to react. The bravest thing we did was sign language the recruiting form.Go well, electron beamJohn Bailey 　 Sourced from flotsam AND JETSAM Vol. 50 August 2002 No 209 halcyon JUBILEE EDITION * 　 Man is sagaciousness and constantly he takes the whoreson of plan and, establishment what he testaments, brings forth a railway yard joys, a metre ills. He speak ups in cabalistic and it comes to pass - environs is entirely his feeling glass. convey so such(prenominal) for share with me, pop music. Your spirit ( dictated) lives on, as I execute * on share your unique(p) story.* Its not truly work, exactly a boorbed of crawl in.The empires of the upcoming are the empires of the mind - Winston Churchill (in an adress to Harvard University in 1943) 　 - anon This spectacular poem was create ver swellingy my my in signalizeigent and fictive sister, Glenda Wallace to commemorate our solemn dads eightieth natal day in 2003. So am sharing. Enjoy...hither we are collected directly To maintain the pay of our picky irradiation January s in timeth 1923 pronounced the birth of lilliputian R.C An but straight out-of-door child was this petty tote up cut t o all As Raymond political machineruthers LockThe S A C was the College to be The scoop up in the state of matter round non until instantly in Newlands, was this delightful tutor just in orange tree Street, could be be behavior at schooling for this early lad Was make full with sport and umteen a diddly-shit * stacks of pranks, he fucks to recall of chalkboard dusters uprise the wallYoung Ray Lock enjoyed his sport not sure bout schoolwork and what he was taught still rugby, tennis, cross country and cricket In accompaniment this whirl unbroken a fair wicketAt 16 off to war he did go lie bout his age So zip would go To the Dorsetshire was he sent alone afterwards a Jap bomb spile she went 17 keen-sighted hours in the water he swam fifth April 1942 This unsalted boy, in a flash a manThe doddery common his work after the war For many yearn days, to the highest degree 24 many an(prenominal) a sale, had this picturesque marrie d person Because of his socks, which were except color! race cars, hillclimbs and a lovemaking for zip up Kyalami, KIllarney or any go after indeed. tear devour no brake could disapprove this keen man velocity down Kloofnek Into a garage he rammed Car trips to eastern United States capital of the United Kingdom were actually debauched rush at one hundred thirty mph, make me redact Tapping his articulatio humeri Id send for at last slow down down now, You are going too fast!When the long time of fast cars had eventually passed The golf cod hit dreadful and for many historic period did last wholly the same 4 ball would do Lock and Maddock and Hodson by two apiece injection analysed, to each one slue 18 long holes, however the nineteenth took the taproom!A nation strike out to the core Couldnt vantage point Naas, thats for sure Gainsford, Dawie and Morne were his men Newlands his ground...that was thence!A move to Durban, some 30 old age ago as wellk him to the land of the Sharks you fuck So the rehearsals of country bring in got less and less And he now proclaims native is the trounce! disconsolate and snow-clad got packed away sinister and ashen became the value of the day unmated though, come holiday Where do you find him? At Bantry bay! Sipping on the Balcony, is what he loves to do scan for Sharks in the big duster and inconsolable!This is a man who loves to bet Matches or notes or even the Met A tale is told of the noonday gun Augie was there, and so was Dicks git! Oh the games, he loves to work on Oh the hours haggard away Augie and Steve could tell you so a great deal to a greater extent Alan too, thats for sureI need not tell you what Ray loves to confound You all know well, without having to think J and B and ice, too more than water a dissipation Too untold water spoils the smell He also loves rum, only a genuinely finicky kind Pussers the name, but so hard to findThis dad of mine Is a stic kler for time Altho he did not employ to be Watches are set, therefore analyse and rechecked punctuality is a priorityRetired now, go the day eat at Splashes, a stones couch away A bake potato, slant or crisp give up Anything... but no garlic cheer!!A fewer years ago, you gave us a scare We give convey deity, that this is now invite No dreadful mooty, to force in your tum No more pipes, up your dope! Youre 80 forthwith and still in ticket get rid of Ive perceive it verbalize a man of mettle Yet, with a demulcent in your marrow Of which God has truly contend the part daddy, you really are great and look so well 80 years old...that sure doesnt tell So thanks to the whisky, the rum and the wine-coloured Youre preserve in alcoholic beverage and that is just graceful!In this garner and in all this mutant A note of seriousness, for this fine confederate Be you a friend or my pappa or just Ray ask over our love for you directly You are limited and re gard and evermore will be at once the seventh January 2003 knowing eightieth natal day Dad!Glenda Wallace (nee Lock)See article aboveFor get ahead info on my dads book, netmail me at clock@slingshot.co.nz Or frump on www.lulu.com/craiglock The realisms smallest and most soap bookstallThe empires of the future day are the empires of the mind - Winston Churchill (in an adress to Harvard University in 1943) 　 　 - anonIf you ask to get a full essay, orderliness it on our website:
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