ML 357 Football Team, 1944
L-R TOP ROW: “Ish” Kibble, Bob Mills, “Ping” Lindsay, “Mush” Routlage, “Blondie” Longden, Douglas “Sparks” Barrow*, “Taffy” Lewis
L-R BOTTOM ROW: Coxswain “Wog” Warrell, “Yanto” Chant, , “Wanker” Malloy and “Burglar” Roy Ellis.
“RESERVES LIST” (unseen but present): Skipper Lt. Com: Dongrey (“too old”), 1st Lieut: Angus C. Adams (too slow, but a champion swimmer), Chief Motor Mechanic: F. Barnard, Stoker: Tubby Owens, Stoke: Geodrie Jackson, “Flunky” “Spuggie Alderson, A.B. Tug Wilson, A.B. “Poacher” Dai Davies.
Image & credits: All images kindly supplied by Delia Palmer (daughter of Douglas Barrow, top row, 2nd from right). Douglas hand-wrote the rear of these photographs with the crews names and nicknames (apologies on Delia’s behalf, as some of the names are not now in common usage!). Douglas added that they played and beat the 2nd team of H.M.S. DIDO, a light Royal Navy cruiser.
ML 357 Crew, 1944
L-R TOP ROW: S.L. Angus C. Adams, Stoker R. Ellis, A.B Lewis, W/T Op. Douglas Barrow, A.B. Mill, Stoker “Ish” Kibble, Lt. Com Dongrey
L-R MIDDLE ROW: A.B. Chant, A.B. Longman, A.B. Woods, A.B. Davies, A.B. Wilson
L-R BOTTOM ROW: E.R.A. Bernard, A.B. Hodges, A.B. Malloy, A.B. Jackson, Coxswain P.V. Worrel - plus there was one other seaman - either Gunner A.B. Savage or A.B. Weaver (who only went on one trip)
Those present but not shown on the phots are Leading Gunner “Mush” Routledge (Senior Rating), Watchkeeper “Ping” Lindsey and Chef “Sandy” Saunders
Some of 357's crew, possibly in Alexandria, Egypt (W/T Operator Douglas Barrow top row, 3rd from right)
Crew of ML357, 1942 (Edward Tassie, top left) Image courtesy of Micheal Hobbs