Hi Rick,
My father joined the RAF at 17 in 1941.
Being colour blind between red and green (which he hadn't realised until then!) clobbered his ambition to be a Spitfire pilot.🤔
He became a Radar Technician, a rare beast at that time, and after D Day followed the RAF fighter squadrons across Europe erecting radar stations. His favourite squadron was #29 Spitfires. I inherited his Squadron Badge.
The only stories he told of that time were about building the antenna masts out of empty beer cans, and what went on during the emptying! 😮
Never a word about what he must have seen and witnessed along the way.
Cheers, Doug 😎

You say your father never talked much about his time in the war am not sure that's not the case for most of our fathers.Probably most were late teens early twenties when they went to war and came back far different then when they left today it may be PTSD. These are only my thought.
Rick

Thats the one missing

Thank you for your trouble I would appreciate receiving the email.
I found an interesting article on google by an engineer officer who was on the Crornwell when she went down in April 1942. Fortunately my Dad must have left in Mombasa after she docked to refuel. He never spoke much of his wartime experience.

Now Doug has done the hard work in finding the correct mag Andrew, I will endeavor to find it and email you with the relevant pages.😐

Cheers, Pete

Hi Bill,
Wasn't so hard once I knew roughly which period to look for.
I have had a digital subscription for some years so I just rooted through my
'Library'. Started at August 2019, found nowt and hopped back and forth from there studying the Covers and contents pages.😀

However; the article is mostly about the kit and I suspect that Andrew wants more of the history of the real ship. So these links might be more useful Andrew👍
Happy reading, hope some of it is useful🤞
Cheers, Doug 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cornwall_(56)
https://www.world-war.co.uk/cornwall_loss.php3
http://ww2today.com/5th-april-1942-hms-dorsetshire-and-hms-cornwall-sunk
https://samilhistory.com/2018/03/27/a-terrific-explosion-lifted-the-ship-out-of-the-water-recounting-south-african-sacrifice-on-the-hms-cornwall/
https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/1184.html
https://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/biographies/listcornwallcrew.html
https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=457

Well done Doug.
As always you come up Trumps with the goods.
Bill 👍👍

Hi Andrew,
the issue you need is November 2019.
A 6 page article about HMS Cornwall and review of the Trumpeter 1/350 scale kit.
Cheers, Doug 😎

I am missing two magazines August 2019 and Janaury2020. I think the article was in the August Issue. If you can trace it I would appreciate it if you would scan it to email as our postal service is hit and miss.
email snr@turpin.co.za
In the meantime I will try and trace it on the web as was suggested. Thanks so much.

If you can find the issue number and date of the MB mag, I will most likely have it, and can send you a copy of.😐

Cheers, Pete

Hello.
I am afraid I can’t help with the MB article but try the website below which gives really concise accounts of many ships including HMS Cornwall.
Hope it helps.
Regards
Bill.

world-war.co.uk