Memories of the past, by Roger McCracken

HMS Ceres 1955

• CO: Captain Paffard
• 2IC: Commander Wheen
• 1st Lieutenant: Lieutenant Commander Worthington

Hood Term 1955

• Officer in charge; Lieutenent David Becker "Uncle David"
• succeeded by Lt Mike Weald
• Instructors: CPO Midgeley, CPO ?
• Upper yardmen: Bob Broughton, John Dewhurst, "Gonger" Jones, Roger McCracken, David Palmer, Philip Rock, Andrew Sharp, David Turner, Bruce Wilson and others whose names I cannot recall!

HMS Ceres was the training station for the Supply And Secretariat branch of the RN.
Hood Term was the Officer Training School for National Servicemen in the Supply And Secretariat branch. Those who passed out successfully were awarded temporary commissions in the RNVR.
Upper Yardmen were ratings who had been selected for Officer training.
National Service was for a period of two years.

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from Russell Hartley, FInstAM : "It was also the RN Writer Training School before it transferred to HMS Pembroke (Chatham) until that closed and then down to HMS Raleigh where it is now called the RN School of Logistics."

from D Jones : "Officer 3rd from left front row, I knew him in 1959 as LT Cdr Antony Sanders Tippet, Squadron Supplies Officer 7th Destroyer Squadron (based on HMS Trafalgar). Lovely gentleman who went on to be a Rear Admiral and was Chairman of Gt Ormonde Street Hospital. I did my Writer training at Ceres in 1957 under PO Writer Mike Shergold (who now lives in France)."