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Offline Baird

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HMS/M Vandal
« on: Friday 31 March 17 12:35 BST (UK) »
On a recent visit to Arran I saw the memorial to the men lost with HMS/M Vandal off Lochranza in 1943. Can someone educate me as to what HMS/M stood for?
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Re: HMS/M Vandal
« Reply #1 on: Friday 31 March 17 12:53 BST (UK) »
Shorthand for His (Her) Majesty's Submarine -  ( 'Sub/Marine' )

http://acronymsandslang.com/definition/106464/HMS%2FM-meaning.html

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Re: HMS/M Vandal
« Reply #2 on: Friday 31 March 17 15:10 BST (UK) »
I am Zoe Northeast, granddaughter of Maximilian Double.
 
It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

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Re: HMS/M Vandal
« Reply #3 on: Friday 31 March 17 18:25 BST (UK) »
Sandra and MaxD,
                           many thanks for the info.
Sandra I was totally ignorant of that abbreviation. Terrible when I had a Great uncle who served in the R.N. for over 40 years and served on K Class Submarines in WW1.

Max, many thanks for the lead to the video. Extremely interesting and I am grateful.

Thank you both,

Baird
Rutherglen;Baird/Adair/Ferguson/Reid
Strathaven;Shearer , Orr
Beith;Steel 
Glasgow;Donnelly,McSorley,Burns
County Tyrone;McSorley
Eaglesham;Paton
 All;McAlonan and variants 
Sligo;Burns 
2nd. bat Seaforth Highlanders 1914-16.
2nd. bat. KOSB 1914-18.
1/8th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-15
5th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-17
1st. Bat. Scots Guards 1914-15
HMS Biarritz 1915-16
K Class Submarines  K10 and K11
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