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13/02/2013 23:34:13
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craig summerhill
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FOUND THIS ON ODDYSSEY
Looking on "HMS Odessy" in Google search will bring you good info on the shorebase establishment, Stating that it was an administration centre based in a hotel.
Further info on wartime military deaths can be found on the Commonwealth Wargraves Commission site. I had an uncle who was a Royal Marine killed in Belgium in 1944 and there is a cemetarty just outside Antwerp with several graves of Royal Marines from HMS Odessy.
Hope this helps
: Good day,
: : Can anyone supply any information on HMS Odyssey? Don't know if it
: was a ship or shore base,but there is some connection with Holland.Trying
: to get this information for a friend who is tracing family history,and had a
: relative who was a Royal marine serving at/in HMS Odyssey,was killed
: during WW11 and is buried in Holland.
: : Many thanks for any help,
: : Brian Hope.
: 14 Nov. 2011
: Serving as Rear Admiral, Reginald Vesey Holt, the last SBNO AND RAY,
: from 2.10.44 was, "Odyssey addl. for Naval Party No. 1737 and as Naval
: Officer in charge designate, Denmark."
: Ref: NA ADM 196/49.
: It seems possible that H.M.S. 'ODYSSEY' was liberated Denmark.
: John Parkinson
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13/02/2013 23:47:14
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craig summerhill
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View topic - A European Road trip, 1944 - 1946. UPDATED 12/11/12
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From the different shore bases shown on his service record, we saw that at around the time of D-Day he was posted to a "HMS Odyssey".
you have to read this story about Oddyssey and D,DAY - It relates to Juno Beach , 30AU , AND OTHER EXCITING STUFF
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13/02/2013 23:50:05
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craig summerhill
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HMS Odyssey was according to "Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy" a base for special operations at Portsmouth.
I also know that this title was also given to a Naval Party
that went to the Belgian Port of Ostend to clear Mines.
It was involved in some special operations on D-day.
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28/03/2015 20:55:31
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Update on identifying which unit my late grandfather served in during the Second World War as a royal marine commando, I found a photo in the 45 commando gallery of someone who resembled him however the photo was a bit dark and difficult to identify as him.
I have emailed the photo to the black dot imaging company and had the photo colourised and enhanced, this along with a few long lost family photos we have recently found have been compared and we can now star that we have found him as a commando in 45 Royal Marines Commando as we were told by my late grandmother many years ago as part of lovatts brigade, currently re-applying for his service docs as the ones we had from DRORM were not the complete papers.
18 years I have searched for a photo of him in his green beret and my mission is complete, I also now have photos of him from his early days in the marines, when the colourised photo without the watermark is sent to me I will attach.
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