Ronald Healiss was a Royal Marine who served as a member of a 4.7 gun crew on the HMS Glorious. Healiss's experience on the Glorious is chronicled in his memoir, Arctic Rescue. He passed away in 1980.
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On the 8th June 1940, the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau opened their guns on the aircraft-carrier HMS Glorious. Within minutes the Glorious was taking on water and the order was given to abandon ship. Hundreds of men leapt into ... SEE MORE