William Thomas Webb in the submarine service

• Main Author: Their Finest Hour Project Team
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: British history; European history (excl. British; classical Greek and Roman); International history; Their Finest Hour; World War Two; Armed Forces; Britain; British; Child; Childhood; Children; Diaries; Diary; Eastern Front; Education; Europe; European; France; French; German; Germany; Greece; Greek; Letter; Letters; Medal; Military; Naval; Navy; Photo; Photograph; Photographs; Photos; RN; Red Army; Royal; Royal Navy; Russia; Russian; Russians; School; Sea; Sea Battle; Ship; Soviet; Soviet Union; Soviets; Submarine; Training; Arctic; Sheila; Webb
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25939366.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/William_Thomas_Webb_in_the_submarine_service/25939366

William was born on 20th September 1918 in Coventry. His mother died in 1930, and he was then sent to the Watts Naval Training School in East Dereham, Norfolk, a Barnardo's home run by the Royal Navy along the lines of a ship. William joined the British submarine service in 1940. He patrolled the German coast and escorted Arctic convoys to Russia. He served on the HHMS Pipinos, a Greek submarine, in 1943. He was interested in French and wanted to be stationed on a French ship but was sent to a Greek one. He wrote down his experiences serving with the Greeks in a book; he was witness to the opening stages of the Greek Civil War. It was when joining the Greek submarine in Barrow in 1943 that he met Sheila.