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Dave Roderick The Capetown
Castle transported me to Liverpool England. We left NYC on Jan 17,
1944 and arrived in Liverpool on January 29, 1944. As I remember it,
on board was Headquarters Company, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th ID
and my 2nd Battalion of the 22nd Inf Reg.
Wim Koster
born at 8 Oct 1954 (in the Netherlands). Travelled with the Capetown
Castle 1962 from England to South Africa.
Peter Rolfe (RAF) sailed
in convoy on Capetown Castle leaving Liverpool on 5th November 1944
and arriving Port Said, Egypt on 22nd November. An accidental firing
of an AA gun on a nearby frigate (HMS Bligh K467) killed and wounded several
personnel on the Capetown Castle before it Liverpool.
Anne (Formerly Leeper) I
along with my mother and brother returned home to England from
Bombay June 1946. My mother and I were evacuated to India at the
start of the war and my brother was born in Poona. The Capetown
Castle was also carrying hundreds of British troops and sailed
through the Suez Canal stopping off in Naples.
Desmond & Elizabeth
Shannon along with our children, Barbara, Stephen, Maureen,
Jaqueline & Richard, we departed from Southampton on May 17th, 1962
for Capetown, South Africa.
R. P. Wigmore I travelled
from Bombay to Liverpool on the Capetwon Castle in 1946 as Leading
Aircraftsman.
Bob Ball I
joined her from Ingham 1942. A fine ship 27 knots troop-ship. We
sailed from UK without escort calling at Freetown-Ascension
Island-St Helena-Walvis Bay-Capetown-Durban-Aden. At Aden we took on
1000 of Rommels Afrika Korp, fine well disciplined troops, 800 other
ranks & 200 officers. Back to Durban to bunker and take on stores,
then down to Tristan da Cunha and the Falklands-Punta Arenas through
the Magellan Straits to Panama Canal on to New York where I had my
16th birthday and prisoners were off-loaded, up to Halifax to take
on Canadian troops who disembarked at Liverpool. A very interesting
trip, uneventful apart from being machine-gunned by a Focke-Wulfe
bomber off the coast of N.Ireland which made a mess of some upper
decks and the laundry sky-light, but no casualties.
John Shipman My
father, Ted Shipman, travelled from Durban, South Africa (depart 6th
Nov 1945) to Southampton I believe (arrived 27th Nov 1945). He was
returning to the UK after commanding the Central Flying School (S R)
RAF Norton where many pilots were trained as flying instructors.
Bill Gibbon My father,
Frank Gibbon, was the Chief Engineer on the Capetown Castle before
he came ashore in 1954. He was very proud of the ship, and had a
collection of photographs. I'm unsure of where they now are, but I
remember him showing me them when I was a young boy.
Gill Phillips nee
Wilton My father Herbert Wilton (Bert) travelled from Bombay
January 1946 to Southampton arriving in February 1946 - he was
leading aircraftsman RAF in Poona - and transported home by the
Capetown Castle. I have a diary of his thoughts about his voyage.
Name:
Edward Gillon McKay
b.1921
Hometown: Edinburgh
Regimen: Royal Artillery Maritime Regiment
Army Number: 108023. I travelled around the world on the Capetown
Castle via the following route: I manned an Oerlikon gun.
Liverpool
Durban South Africa
Bombay India (picked up time expired Australians and New Zealanders)
Australia (*meant to go to Ceylon, but stopped by mines/submarines,
re-
routed to Australia)
New Zealand
Panama Canal
Halifax
Liverpool
If you read this and served with me on this ship, please e-mail
S.Lanaway@titancreative.com
Loren D Auld
New York to Liverpool 1943
Frederick Baker
Frederick
Charles Baker RAMC April 6 1942 from Southampton on route to India,
troop ship, then served in India and Burma. Left Southampton after
seeing his son, Fred junior, born at Weymouth on 3 April 1942.
Returned 1945.
Eric Osborne engine room. Had
a leading hand called Jumbo by god he was massive but a good boss.
The only way we could get ice-cream was when the stewards went past
the engine room door and with his hands covered in diesel he would
stick or fingers in the bowl of ice-cream and say I'll have that
one.
Allan Kirk Sailed
from Halifax to Scotland. Ship used as a troop ship transporting
RCAF airmen during the second world war.
Dan West My wife's uncle,
Sgt. Frank H. Hall, shipped out on the Cape Town Castle with the
22nd Infantry Regiment in Jan. of 1944. He was KIA on 20 November,
1944 in the Hurtgen Forest.
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