Tag Archives: RNPS

WW2 letters from Lowestoft

Posted on September 11, 2013 by G. A. Michael Sims

After the best part of twenty years I’ve finished but was it worth it? I’m not the best judge of that. The discovery of a collection of letters from one member of my family to another, recording events in my … Continue reading →

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RNPS Commando – Petty Officer Harold Hiscock

Posted on October 21, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

I was recently talking to a colleague, a retired British Army Major who now leads battlefield tours in Europe and who had been investigating the records of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, in what was East Germany. He had come across a … Continue reading →

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RNPS Silver Badge File (II)

Posted on October 21, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

On delving deeper into the file about the Royal Naval Patrol Service Silver Badge in the National Archives (the account of the discovery of which was first published in the RNPS Newsletter), we find it lays to rest some of … Continue reading →

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An RNPS silver badge file in the National Archives

Posted on April 23, 2011 by G. A. Michael Sims

Late last year I was asked if I would like to give a short talk to the local Rotary Club about the Royal Naval Patrol Service. Flattered that anyone would think that I knew enough about RNPS to take it … Continue reading →

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Rotary East, Lowestoft

Posted on March 10, 2011 by G. A. Michael Sims

What nice people they are at Rotary East, Lowestoft. They recently invited me to talk to them for 20-30 minutes about the history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service, a branch of the Royal Navy which had been based at … Continue reading →

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Collecting Royal Naval Patrol Service books

Posted on October 18, 2009 by G. A. Michael Sims

(…originally published in the ibooknet newsletter for November 2002) A brief history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS) was a ‘navy within a navy’ during WW2. In 1939 much of Britain’s domestic freight distribution … Continue reading →

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