Your help please !
I have my Uncles ( Mark Robinson ) Royal Navy Certificate of Service, he served 30 July 1941
to 16 May 1946.
There are some abbreviations I am scratching my head with !!
i.e. After HMS Rooke in brackets BS ?
On one line there is the word Proxipine and then in brackets John Fitzgerald and then the word
Fossbeck crossed out ?
Can't find any WW web reference to those words neither is there the word Proxipine in the dictionary.
There was an HMS Porcupine !!
After HMS Drake in brackets BOD ?
After HMS Wildfire in brackets TBD
No doubt some of you have looked on the web at information relating to the Navy and it's ships in WW2. I am amazed at just how much there is !
H.M.S. Rooke was a shore establishment.
H.M.S. Drake is now Devonport in Plymouth.
H.M.S. Wildfire is now Northwood in London.
Proxipine is an anti inflammatory drug.
I am looking at the situation of those 3 vessels whilst my Uncle was serving.
HMS Rooke was the Boom Defence Central Depot at Rosyth in Scotland.
Drake I believe to have been a base ship during his time, probably at Plymouth, although I can't find any definitive evidence.
Wildfire in 1945 was the RN Sheerness base.
You say that Proxipine was an anti inflammatory drug !!
I can't find any such word in a dictionary or on the web.
There is a drug called Paroxetine
Clarification please on your source for the word Proxipine
HMS Proserpine was the main base HQ and communications Centre for Scapa Flow under naval command in the Orkney Islands in WW2.
Became operational in 1943.