Oh yeah, he served on a number of ships during and after WW2 in the Royal Navy. After the Manchester on the Malta supply convoys he got assigned to another Southampton class cruiser but I can't recall the name of the top of my head, I'd have to ask my Dad. He did tours in the arctic doing the supply runs from the UK to the USSR on a few different ships, in 1944 he got posted to what was later called Task Force 57 which was a huge RN fleet (it had 30 aircraft carriers and hundreds of escort ships! That must have been a sight to behold) in the pacific that joined up with the US fleets to take Iwo Jima, Chirch Jima, Okinawa etc. I've got pictures of him with half naked girls from some remote island somewhere in the south pacific. The war wasn't all bad
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Oddly enough I went to school with a guy who's grandfather also served on the Manchester. Small world.
Cause that ships wreck was scuttled rather than sunk with hands lost its not a war grave so one day im going to Tunisia and go diving around it.