HMS INDEFATIGABLE
ROYAL NAVY FLEET AIR ARM

887 Squadron        20 Seafires

894 Squadron        20 Seafires

1770 Squadron      12 Fireflies

820 Squadron        21 Avengers

Photo:- via Louise Roy

Two sailors said to be from HMS Indefatigable. They
spent some leave in Wollongong, N.S.W. with the
Mitchell family of Coniston. The photo was taken
 at the back of the Mitchell Family butcher shop.
The sailor on the right is called Ron Giddings.

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in Australia during WW2

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank Dennis Whiley and Louise Roy for their assistance with the above information.

I'd like to thank Jo Watts for identifying her grandad Ron Giddings in the above photograph.

Can anyone help me with more information?

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This page first produced 7 January 2001

This page last updated 17 January 2020