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EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA We left the West Indies about November 1949 arriving in Liverpool early December. It had been a fairly uneventful trip. The accommodation typical ‘Trooper’, cabins for the Officers hammocks for O/Rs. The weather for nearly the whole trip was ‘rough’ and very very much colder. A lot of sea sickness. Very indifferent…

The 5 day trip to Belize was to be on RASCV ‘CATANIA’ (Royal Army Service Corps Vessel). It had an unenviable reputation. Apparently it had started life as a US Navy submarine chaser and been re-engined. Coming from Bath where there was an Admiralty Department -Directorate of Naval Small Craft Disposals -whose job it was…

Part 2: West Indies Embarkation leave over and in our Gloster berets and BD with new kit bags – off we went. There were only six of us in the draft, we were going by ship from London, via a staging point in London. We thought we were top of the pops and did plenty…

Ken Fisher, a Korean war veteran has written a blog of his life and it will be reproduced here in a series of posts. PART 1: NATIONAL SERVICE Early in 1949, not long after I turned 18, I was notified about National Service and told to report to Jamaica Street in Bristol for a medical.…