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When did you sign up with the armed forces?
I joined the Royal Navy in December 1942 and was sent to HMS Collingwood in Fareham for a signallers course. I spent three months there before they shut the signalling school and I was transferred to Skegness. It was here that I became a signalman-trained operator until a draft came for combined operations on landing craft, and I was sent to an LCG (Landing Craft, Gun) ship for close-in work on beach landings. I joined a