Download Bulletin 8th November 2026
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
DEACON GEORGE’S HOMILY ON REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
On the 7th April,1982, HMS Repulse was due to sail and deploy on her three month patrol. HMS Resolution had just arrived in the submarine base, whilst HMS Revenge was currently out at sea, on patrol. On the jetty, I saw Commander Moss, and my friend John David Law Caddy. John and I had joined up together, and now we were both Warrant Officers, I on HMS Repulse and John on HMS Resolution. Commander Moss beckoned me over to him. He was our appointer, and he told us that one of us would have to join HMS Coventry, a ship sailing to the Falklands. The surface fleet were short of men, therefore one of us had to join that ship….
