Hendrik Brouwer was employed in the Royal Dutch Navy from 1937 to 1947. He served during the Second World War and received several awards. After his grandfather's death, Kevin Brouwer, who worked ...
Boyd was sent to help the Dutch in clearing unexploded ordnance. Interviewed late in life by “Ginge” Fullen, chronicler of the Royal Navy’s clearance diving branch, he recalled ...
One of the last surviving Royal Navy bomb disposal specialists from the ... bombs from Sword Beach at Normandy as well as the Dutch island of Walcheren. But his naval career came to an end when ...
The bomb was towed five miles from Southend Pier before being detonated Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have destroyed a World War Two device found in the wreck of a 17th Century warship.
A World War II bomb disposal specialist has died at the age of 100. Boyd Salmon, from Lymington, was one of the last surviving Royal Navy bomb disposal ... Normandy and the Dutch island of Walcheren.