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Mr R.G. Mundy and Mr R.J. Mundy
A selection of short stories with photographs
Title: From engineer at Vickers Armstrong to the Royal Navy
My grandfather R.G. Mundy was in the navy in ww2, but at Dunkirk it appears he had a problem with shell shock when his minesweeper came under fire and he was discharged due to ill health in April 1942
Mr R.G. Mundy served on board HMS Euryalus in the 1st WW & won prize money. In ww2 he severed on HMS Beaver ( Sword Dance) as will as HMS Boscawen ( Pierre Gustave ) both trawlers / minesweepers and HMS Europa
Mr R.G. Mundy was based in & working out of Lowestoft Patrol Service
My father Robert J. Mundy was working at Vickers Armstrong factory in Crayford Kent as an engineer making various guns etc. At the start of ww2
Most of his family and his wife's family worked in the factory at this time.
He decided to enlist in the Royal Navy even though he was in a reserved occupation.
He join up on 12th Jan 1942 and entered under NS(AF) Acts
Trained at HMS Duke Malvern Jan 42 to Feb 42
He remembered having to get up every morning and having to run from the barracks to the lake under the Iron Age Fort on the Malvern Hills, swimming across the lake and running back to base.
Unfortunately two of his cousins from Erith who trained at the same time are in this photograph and on placement to a ship some few weeks later both went down in one of the big Battleships.
R.J. Mundy is 5th from right in the back row taken Jan 1942
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