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Moggy123

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HMS Nile
« on: 22 November 2020 02:07:08 pm »
Hi
Can anyone help me please , i am researching my Uncle Tom , and have obtained his records , however there are two names that i cant read

He was at HMS Nile a shore base in Alexandria in 1944 ,there are three entrants 1. Nile (Sphinx) , 2. Nile (-----) 3. Nile ( ----- )it is the later two that i cannot read , any help would be appreciated .

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PhiloNauticus

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Re: HMS Nile
« Reply #1 on: 23 November 2020 02:28:40 pm »

SPHINX – name of the camp at Alexandria

CANOPUS – name of a camp at Ras-el-Tin, Alexandria

CONVOLVULUS  - a ‘Flower’ class corvette.  It had been worked hard on the North Atlantic and Mediterranean busily employed as a convoy escort

see:  https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theflowerclasscorvetteforums/hms-convolvulus-t628.html



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