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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Brsukami on Saturday 23 July 16 06:13 BST (UK)
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Born 1927/28 Croydon Surrey to John Albert Dedman and Sarah Martin. Married Joan Cannings.Served in Royal Navy aboard HMS Vengeance as steward.Any information on war service.
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For all Personnel serving after 1920, their records are still with the MOD.
To obtain them, see:
https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records/apply-for-someone-elses-records
There will be a fee of £30.
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You may need his birth date
Death registration has
Raymond Dedman
Born 29 Mar 1927
Died Feb 1995 - Surrey South Eastern
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Born 1927/28 Croydon Surrey to John Albert Dedman and Sarah Martin. Married Joan Cannings.Served in Royal Navy aboard HMS Vengeance as steward.Any information on war service.
Have you any photographs of him on HMS Vengeance?
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Born 1927/28 Croydon Surrey to John Albert Dedman and Sarah Martin. Married Joan Cannings.Served in Royal Navy aboard HMS Vengeance as steward.Any information on war service.
. With that birth year,, he was. Probably too young to have seen service during WW2
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in 1939 he was described as at school , as scouseboy says he seems a bit young for ww2 service unless it was right at the tail end of it .
regards
trevor
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Born 1927/28 Croydon Surrey to John Albert Dedman and Sarah Martin. Married Joan Cannings.Served in Royal Navy aboard HMS Vengeance as steward.Any information on war service.
. Was the HMS Vengeance which he served on an Aircraft Carrier. Please?
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From Wikipedia:
HMS Vengeance (R71) was a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The carrier served in three navies during her career: the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Vengeance, from 1952 to 1955), and the Brazilian Navy (as Minas Gerais, from 1956 to 2001).
Constructed during World War II, Vengeance was one of the few ships in her class to be completed before the war's end, although she did not see any active service.
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She, HMS Vengeance, was in Alexandria before the end of the war, and was then deployed to the far east. If the war with Japan had continued she would have played an active part in operations there.
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See www.hms-vengeance.co.uk for details of her operational deployment during WW2 and shortly thereafter.