I am writing this story on behalf of my father Thomas Bannerman who was a " Pom-Pom " gunner on HMS Dorsetshire when it was attacked and sunk by the Japanese planes off the coast of Ceylon. They had ...

After a little more than a year since having left dockyard hands in the United Kingdom, with a lot of mileage covered in a very busy time since the commencement of 1944, Ceylon was by September very ...

This month in particular we as a nation remember the fallen; those people who paid the ultimate sacrifice for us to enjoy our freedom. Thousands of stories relating to both World Wars and other ...

The year was 1942 and my father was 19 years old. As an Able Seaman, he had set sail from Wallsend on the Tyne on board HMS Dorsetshire. They docked in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). On Saturday 4 ...