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Before Our Time
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 NAAFI price list 1940 (2)229 viewsThis must have been before rationing!

Copyright â’¸ Derrick Calver 2022derrick calver
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 NAAFI price list 1940161 viewsCopyright â’¸ Derrick Calver 2022derrick calver
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 HMS Serapis bringing Edward, Prince of Wales to Malta 1876248 viewsSerapis was one of five Euphrates class, originally built as troopers.

HMS Hercules behind (just ahead).

Read about the partying Prince in the TIMES OF MALTAadmin
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 Army childhood349 viewsARMY CHILDHOOD: BRITISH ARMY CHILDREN’S LIVES AND TIMES. Beautifully produced with many full colour prints.

Book by The Army Children Archive’s founder, Clare Gibson. (Shire Publications Ltd, 2012). Slim but highly recommended.

Read parts online HERE

More on TACA including Malta (but lacks a search facility).2 commentsMartin Powell
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 Could Malta have become a US possession?398 viewsJudge for yourself HERE

Watercolour USS Constitution in GH 1804, Edwin Galea
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 Spinola 18701190 viewsThe statue of St Julian is still there.Prefect
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 What became the Naval Families Clinic701 viewsGhar id Dud, Sliema.
Independent.2 commentsPrefect
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 Dockyard College / SNSO, Clock & Senglea Gate934 viewsNear Sheer Bastion, war damage not yet repaired.

Note the sunshades erected above the SNSO store buildings (later becoming College classrooms).2 commentsPrefect
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 St Elmo Breakwater546 viewsUnder construction.Prefect
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 St Elmo Breakwater594 viewsOpen to the public.
Postcard 1930sPrefect
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 Customs House Steps705 views2 commentsPrefect
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 Church of St Paul's Bonfire589 viewsSt Paul's Bay.
Bombed 1943.Prefect
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 Grand Harbour 1930539 viewsPrefect
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 Floriana 1857509 viewsPrefect
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 Gozo Military Hospital 1882518 viewsPrefect
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 Bighi Naval Hospital503 viewsR.Ellis
Prior to 1903. (No Cot Lift.)Prefect
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 HMS Nile c1890-93493 viewsPrefect
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 The Ill Fated HMS Victoria482 viewsWiki.Prefect
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 Australia Hall517 viewsIn good order.Prefect
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 Tigne Barracks 1915531 viewsPrefect
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 HMS Royal Sovereign527 views1 commentsPrefect
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 Fort St Angelo493 viewsPrefect
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 World Leaders Up the Creek514 viewsWSC & FDR confer, 2 Feb 1945 prior to Yalta.
"No more let us falter! From Malta to Yalta. Let nobody alter!" Prefect
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 P&O Arcadia444 viewsBuilt 1888.
Details.Prefect
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 HMS Euphrates448 viewsIndian Trooper built 1866.Prefect
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 Racecourse Street, Saqqajja Hill, Rabat.497 viewsPrefect
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 Racing at Marsa474 viewsRacing Club History.Prefect
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 Musta Church440 viewsPrefect
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 Mosta Church478 viewsPrefect
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 The Manderaggio520 viewsA hole dug in Valletta by the Order, intended as a dock but not completed, became a notorious slum until cleared in 1948 and replaced with Government housing.Prefect
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 HMS Tamar c1882454 viewsTroopship built 1863. Later hulked at Hong Kong where she was scuttled in 1941, her name transferring to the Naval Base.
Hibernia beyond.Prefect
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