Is Jeff Tall still the curator at the HMS Dolphin museum? It would be a fantastic location for a meeting at some point next year!!!!!
Hi Duffs, Commander Jeff Tall OBE RN retired from the Museum a couple of years ago and I had the opportunity to meet him and his wife when we both traveled on the QE2's last cruise to Spitzbergen & the Norwegian Fjords, when Jeff gave a fantastic series of four Slide & Video based lectures on the history of the Submarine from its inception through Warfare to modern times. A Lovely and very knowledgeable man.
It was meeting Jeff that prompted me to get in touch with the museum to establish my fathers war record and to send them copies my photos.
In the picture, my father is the one on the extreme right standing in the Cable Hatch on HMS Sleuth. He survived the war having been sunk twice apparently when based in the Med.
He received two Distinguished Service, Mentions in Dispatches, One on HMS Sub Unseen in 1943, for good service in submarines in the Med., and one when on HMS Sub Sleuth in 1945 when in the Pacific for Far East War Patrols. The Submarine Museum at HMS Dolphin, Gosport, wrote and told me that for much of the period he spent in the Med at HMS St. Angelo / HMS Talbot on Malta he was classed as 'Spare Crew'.
Other Subs he served on were P32, Unbeaten, Seadog, Una and Urge (lost 1942) as well as the Land bases at HMS's Raliegh, Drake, Dolphin, Maidstone, Ambrose and Forth.
Coming from Fareham myself (War Baby) it is years since I have been to Gosport and to that museum. A great idea for a day out.
