END OF wartime Career newspaper Demobbed 1946

There is a lot of factual errors  in this article,  Glenroy did not reach England until May 1943  and was   in dockyard hands  for major   repairs.I would infer from  the account that the refit he  was referring to   was the one  from damage recd in my fathers  account.. Glenroy could not have taken part in either the Deipe raids in 1942 or Sicily in Jukly 1943  as she would still be  under repair.

 

 Glenroy was part of Assault force convoy G 9a Gold beach. The hq ship for that was HMS Bulolo. under the command of Commodore Douglas- Pennant(. She carried the  2nd Devons .Part of British 50th DivisionThe target was  Le hamel JIG sector Gold beach  but in fact

Instead of landing near Le Hamel, all but ‘C’ Company of the battalion had fetched up well to the east, opposite Les Roquettes.

 She  made 4 trips until she was mined on d plus three. bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar' Frank  Attwoods  Account.

 "Our first call was Arromanches’ we dropped anchor, some distance from the French coast,( 7 miles in fact) we lowered the landing crafts , despatching over 1500 troops, not knowing , but hoping they would fulfil their tasks. During the next eight days we did three more landings at different beaches, the last one deploying Americans near Cherbourg, this proved to be the end for us, as the Glenroy hit a mine. With the engine room flooded to a depth of 35 feet most of the ships crew were evacuated and we were towed by three French tugs back to Southampton, and then to dry dock for repair and re-fit in Cardiff., the estimated number of troops landed in our four visits to France was approximately 7500.

This meant Glenroy survived "bullets bombs torpedos  and mines,  the engine  had been completely flooded twice,

I have also learned that  she was just  missed  by an e boat torpedo on d day itself. The torpedo  passed just in Front and struck  the Norwegian destroyer Svenner  off the Starboard Bow .  Svenner was the only naval  casualty  as a result of enemy action on  d Day, many accounts mention the destroyer broken in half like a v.

She had one more task  to do  , She brought back  1000  women and children   from camps in Indonesia in 1946

she was scrapped in 1965.

For those interested Glenroy is mentioned numerous times in an excellant Book.

IN TIME OF WAR   by Alex Attwood. This is an account almost a Diary with many cross references and dates in the margin of Glenearn  Glenroys Sister ship.

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