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History|Royal Navy|World War 2

Hostilities Only

2 May 2019
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Hostilities Only is the story of my father Robert Brooks’ time as a Hostilities Only rating in the Royal Navy during World War 2. Over one million people (923,000 men and 86,000 women) served in the Royal Navy during that War. Thousands of men and women enlisted after a recruitment campaign to help meet the…

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Hostilities Only | One of the great untold stories of the Second World War

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