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As Good As Gold On April 6, 1905 Pa gazed as his beautiful bride gracefully walked down the aisle. Alice…

Dockyard Apprentices As early as the 1940s and prior, 500 Bermudians worked at the H.M. Dockyard. Of this number, there…

This is my dad, Edward William “Buster” Gibbons photographed in June 1990. You can’t see his face in this photo,…

Bermuda is where my mother and father first met and fell in love between 1949 and 1951. Dad (Eddie Hillman)…

My father, Bill Bendall was posted to Bermuda in 1936; my mother, Freda joined him there in 1938. Bill was…

This is my father, Frank Smythe, on the left, on the Lady Somers in the South Basin, Royal Naval Dockyard,…

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