PONTEFRACT IN 1945

16th February 1945
MORE ADVENTURES FOR TELEGRAPHIST J. BANNISTER 
OF THE ROYAL NAVY

More adventures have come the way of Telegraphist John Bannister, of the Royal Navy, whose home is in Star Yard, Pontefract. 

Two or three years ago ‘The Express’ recounted some of his exciting experiences on a submarine in the Mediterranean, when we were up against the Germans and the Italians, and Malta was undergoing its ordeal. In more recent months he has been a member of the crew of the submarine, ‘Tally Ho’, which set out to hunt Japanese ships in Far Eastern waters. She stalked supply ships on the route to Burma and men of war exercising near the Malacca Straits. Sometimes she herself was hunted and once she lost all her port main ballast tanks in a collision. But she survived, and several days ago reached a home port, with the following list of ‘kills’: - a cruiser, a submarine, a submarine chaser, and escort vessel and 17 other ships. Bannister will have many more thrilling exploits to relate.

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