JOHN COOK was born at Garven Terrace in Stevenston on the 11th of March 1909. The family moved to 31 Station Square prior to 1913, and John likely received his education at the Stevenston Junior Secondary School. He probably left school about the age of 14 and was apprenticed as an iron moulder at the nearby Ardrossan Winton Foundry.
This came to a halt with the onset of the Great Depression about 1930. For a time he found work as a labourer on the construction of sea defences along Saltcoats Promenade. John eventually followed his father into the ICI explosives factory in Ardeer, where he joined the Blacksmiths Department.
At the age of 27, he married a shop assistant named Elizabeth Eve-lyn Haire Grant, at Ardeer Parish Church on the
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However, based on evidence of his time in Africa a safe guess can be made as to his movements between 1941 and 1943. In August 1941, the British Chiefs of Staff recommended that the four Revenge-class battleships – Revenge itself, as well as Resolution, Royal Sovereign, and Ramillies – should be sent to bolster Singapore against the increasingly aggressive Japanese. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was completely opposed to this, however, calling the Revenge-class “coffin ships.” Following this, Revenge and Royal Sovereign were deployed to the Indian Ocean for convoy escort duties. Revenge was briefly in Freetown, Sierra Leone before sailing in escort for Cape Town, South Africa on the 1st of September. On the evening of the 2nd, one of the convoy ships, RMS Orion, collided with Revenge following a malfunction. The convoy arrived in Cape Town on the 11th and Revenge underwent re-pairs. It spent the subsequent months carrying out further convoy duties in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. The Revenge-class ships, launched during the First World War, were unpopular with the Admiralty and this likely resulted in their being kept out of the …show more content…
The Eastern Fleet was divided into Force A and Force B and March saw Revenge, as part of Force B, patrolling the waters south of Ceylon, sweeping east by day and west by night. By April, the Admiralty had realised that the Eastern Fleet was inferior in all respects to the fleet of the Imperial Japa-nese Navy. George Mason writes that the Revenge-class ships were “con-sidered more of a liability than an asset due to their slow speed and poor anti-aircraft armament,” and as result were withdrawn to Africa. Between May 1942 and July 1943, Revenge returned to defensive duties in the Indian Ocean, spending the period September-November 1942 in Durban un-dergoing further refits. In July 1943 Revenge was nominated to return home and she arrived in the Clyde on the 9th of September.
John returned home on leave a handful of times throughout the war. Anna stated that he rarely spoke of his wartime experiences, though the mention of Durban and Cape Town, beads and wooden carvings brought home with him, and photos of villages with straw huts all point-ed to his time in Africa and the Indian Ocean. She recalled that her
John Hancock was born on January 12, 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts. He was orphaned as a child and then was adopted by a wealthy merchant uncle who was childless. Hancock went to Harvard College for a business education. He graduated Harvard College at the age of 17. He apprenticed to his uncle as a clerk and proved to be honest and capable that in 1760, he was sent on a business mission to England. In England, he witnessed the coronation of King George III and engaged some of the leading businessmen of London.
In 1941, the United States once again found itself involved in a war. The following year, Sachem was returned to the U.S. Navy for the second time. Being passed on to different owners, this ship encounters different names too. From Celt to USS Sachem, now under the name USS Phenakite, it was deployed to patrol the waters of Florida Keys.
John Hancock was born on January 12, 1737. He became an orphan upon the death of his father until his wealthy uncle adopted him and put Hancock to work. His uncle owned a mercantile firm called Thomas Hancock & Company, which was the leading trade company in Boston, Massachusetts at the time. (John Hancock) John Hancock’s uncle became mortally sick in 1761. In 1764, he took charge of his uncle’s firm
This gave the men a stronger sense of patriotism, national identity and loyalty to their beloved country. When the Singapore based British Navy was captured by the Japanese the
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Ford Island had been hit bomb and torpedoes. One of the ships the USS Arizona was
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John Hancock was born on January 23, 1727 in Braintree, Mass. He is the son of John Hancock and Mary Hawke. John Hancock (father) was a Harvard graduate and minister. They lived in a part of town which eventually became the
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Asia. The Japanese also hoped to use the attack towards the United States to get them
Laws are made to keep a society at peace among the people. They can protect people from each other, while maintaining a functioning and productive society. However some crime victims may have laws named after them. These laws typically address legal ineffectiveness, which could have helped to find and punish the criminal in that case. Laws that have been named in honor of a crime victim, aim to protect future potential victims and lessen the chances of recurrences of previous cases.
As a freshman college student I did not expect that through a fulfillment of graduation requirements, I would stumble across this particular Latino studies curriculum. When I registered for this course my mind was just focused on the fact of attending and perhaps learning a thing or two about my heritage. I also expected to find myself in a position of easy success for this course, and while I believe that I was quite successful, it was not as simple as I projected. The reason behind some of the challenges that I faced were because, unlike most college courses were students are just mindlessly completing homework assignments or writing essays for the purpose to be critiqued, this course engaged emotion and made the students truly immerse themselves
The general explained that “... after the Llandovery Castle was torpedoed, not a helping hand was offered to our wounded comrades” (137) and that there was “more than three hundred wounded Canadians struggling in the choppy waters of the English Channel....”(137). These words burned a picture into the minds of the soldiers. It showed the unfair and inhumane ways of the German army. The wounded soldiers with amputated limbs sunk to the bottom instantly with the salt stingy in their wounds all whilst the Germans soldiers laughed on. It was described that “... the lifeboats were sprayed by machine-gun fire ... the laughing men on the U-boat ... the amputation cases went to the bottom instantly ... they couldn't swim, poor chaps ... the salt water added to their dying agony....” (138). The general then used this to motivate the soldiers to avenge the deaths of their wounded Canadians soldiers. He said “... men, we are going into action in a few days, and we will be given an opportunity to avenge the lives of our murdered comrades ... if they choose to suspend the accepted rules for conducting civilized warfare, by