The Neptune Association

Diaries

Diaries

Account of Petty Officer Tom Richards of HMS Aurora - December 18th to 30th 1941

This account includes a description of the Neptune tragedy and how it was seen from HMS Aurora. He wrote it as the ship was returning to Malta on December 19th.

 

War diary of Chief Petty Officer John (Jack) Charles Evans, Electrical Artificer 2nd Class - 28th August 1939 to 11th February 1941

 This remarkable account of the ship's service in the first year and a half of the war was hand written on 99 pages of a large notebook. 

 

War diary of Ordinary Seaman John Smith - May 1940 to January 1941

This account starts with a signal sent to the French Fleet and continues through the events of the following eight months including John Smith's personal geographical and historical notes on HMS Neptune's ports of call.



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