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Like father, likeson Medic's medal A NAVAL medic, who has just taken up an appointment attached to a general practice in Helensburgh, has received formal recognition of his Mention in Despatches for his work carried out during Operation Haven last year. Surgeon Lieut. Peter Davis received a certificate signed by the then Defence Secretary Tom King, together with oak leaf medal decorations, f r o m Commodore John Trewby, the Naval Base Commander Clyde, at a ceremony at Faslane. In honouring him Commodore Trewby said: "Surgeon Lieut. Davis put himself at considerable personal risk during Operation Haven, treating a wide variety of ailments, often under appalling conditions. He cured many refugees, saved a number of lives and introduced standards of medical care of the highest order. His actions were in the very highest traditions of the Naval Medical Service."
FOCUS ON THE FUTURE
WITH more than 90 years naval service under their belts, the fathers of three trainee Air Engineering Mechanics at HMS Daedalus must surely be tempted to offer their sons some words of advice . . . But to be fair, things have probably changed a good deal since Lieut. Tim Holt, Lieut. John Gamble and CPO Douglas Carrington embarked on their own studies in the field of air engineering all those years ago!
Rugby player Tim (pictured back row left) joined the Royal Navy in 1954 and has served in HM ships Eagle, Albion, Bulwark, Hermes and Invincible. His son, Andrew, pictured in front of him, joined the Service last September and like dad has a passion for rugby. John (back row right), who joined the RN in 1963, has also served in the Eagle, Albion and Bulwark, as well as the RFAs Fort Austin and Tidespring. His lad, Mark (front right), only joined the Senior Service in March, but is already looking forward to seeing for himself some of the many countries his father's talked about. Douglas has been in the Royal Navy since 1968 and has also served in the Eagle, Albion and Bulwark. He and son Andrew, who joined up in February, have been serving together longer than a few months though. Douglas plays a big part in running the Daedalus Volunteer Cadet Corps, of which Andrew was formerly a member. Picture: CPO(Phot) Stuart Antrobus.
Fishy business for First and last Orkney captains
OLD shipmates CPOs Alf Nicoll and Bill Saunders have been reunited in HMS Glasgow, the Rosyth-based Type 42 destroyer, for their last seagoing appointments before retiring from the Navy next summer.
THE appointment of Lieut.-Cdr. David Wilson (right) as Fishery Protection Officer has brought together three commanding officers of the fishery protection vessel HMS Orkney. Before taking up his current position Lieut.-Cdr. Wilson commanded HMS Orkney
from July 1991 to May of this year. As Fishery Protection Officer he takes over from
AT a presentation in the Map Room at HMS Dryad Lieut.Cdr. M i k e Percharde was awarded the Captain's Warfare Prize, a pair of Zeiss binoculars presented by Ferranti International to the PWO student who merits particular recognition for his achievements on PWO course. Lieut.-Cdr. Pcrcharde is currently serving as POW(A) in HMS Exeter which is due to sail for the west coast of the USA for exercises with the US Navy, and visits to Norfolk, Virginia, and Mayport, Florida.
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Lieut.-Cdr. Eamon Fitzgerald (left) who now moves on to become Assistant Sea Cadet Officer for Scotland. Lieut.Cdr. Fitzgerald was commanding officer of HMS Orkney from November 1985 to March 1988. In the meantime, Lieut.-Cdr. Brian Gerrish (seated), the current commanding officer of HMS Orkney, makes up his own mind about this fishy business while his two experienced colleagues try to confuse him with good advice!
The two first met in 1971 in their first ship HMS Forth, which was then based in Singapore as a submarine support vessel attached to the Far East Squadron. They both enjoyed successful careers and during the years have visited such far off places as Cape Town, Florida, Jamaica, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Karachi, New York and the Bahamas as well as many ports in Europe. Although the two had not seen each other during the intervening 20 years, both have settled in Fife, Alf in Glenrothes and Bill in Dunfermline. HMS Glasgow is currently in dry dock in Rosyth after having completed a tour of duty in the Mediterranean during which she was involved in supporting British interests in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Yugoslavia. She will sail again later this month with 25 Wrens who are now a permanent part of the ship's company.
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COMPLETING his third, and most successful, season as pilot of the Navy's entry in the 1992 King's Cup air race series, CPO Colin Tattersall, of RN air station Yeovilton, won the Grosvenor Challenge trophy, at Shobden, Herefordshire, the first time the Navy has won the trophy in 57 years. CPO Tattersall began as the team's crewman in 1988 and in the three competitions since then he has acted as pilot and has flown atone. His first season got off to a cracking start when he won £500 in Ms first race, the 1989 Gower Cup, and was awarded the Outran) Trophy for newcomers. The following year he took the Mitel Sword and to date has won £1,700 in prize money, all of which went straight Into a naval amenities fund. As an 846 Sqn. crewman CPO Tattersall was Mentioned in Despatches in the Falklands War and in Beirut and now works in the FRADU operations room at Yeovilton. He holds a civil pilots licence and plans a career in commercial aviation when he leaves the Service in two years' time.