Richard Firmin LSA Served from 1967 - 1975 Served in HMS Ganges Richard Dunn CMEM (M) Served from 1972 - 1987 Served in HMS Ganges Tony Hayden RO1 (T) Served from 1970 - 1975 Served in HMS Ganges Peter Ohara MT2 Served from 1965 - 2021 Served in HMS Ganges Peter Cook I also remember Wally Beard as a very amusing sort of a person not the same could be said for Tommo, not many jokes cracked there!!! This building was a Signal School apparently, which was created to teach flag signalling and telecommunications. 1967 - HMS London. 1968 - Staff of STANAVFORLANT. 1967 - John Jones. table.center {margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border-collapse:collapse; font-size: 13px; font-weight:bold; text-align: center;} Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. A great site, yes were all pretty sad to see it like that but you can never take away memories, I was there 1963/64, 59 recrutment as a baby stoker 28/29 mess Benbow division. 1968 Vin 'Shiner' Wright HMS Nubian. At the start of 2006 the site was subject to a controversial planning war - some developers want to build a ton of homes etc on the site, but . The wrongs I witnessed and was subjected to taught me how NOT to treat people. Boys who joined the Navy at either 16 or 17 (initially as seamen, as opposed to other trades) were sent to one of a number of Boy training establishments, Ganges being one, to undertake their 3 months' basic training. It's amazing nobody (or very few?) There is some excellent footage of Ganges, albeit WWII era in one of Roland Smith's splendid Episodes of the Royal Navy videos (Part 3, Close up for action stations). Was there in 1989 course 3/89. Little did I know. Royal Army Medical Corps who died 22/02/1919 NUNHEAD (ALL SAINTS) CEMETERY United Kingdom ' I was there in 1961 for training as a wireless operator, done me the world of good and can look back with good memories. var year=mydate.getYear() HMS Ganges Photo Tour. 1967 - Margaret Taylor. Recommended Internet Browsers: FIREFOX, SAFARI and GOOGLE CHROME. 1969 - Lt Ash (aged 95). Ganges became obsolete, outdated, cold and institutionalised well before the 1960s. Railways, Motorcycles, Computers, Target shooting. sticking up like one giant finger.Ganges was an experience that will never leave me, a love hate relationship, Started out in Anson 20 mess, back classed through illness and ended up in Grenville 23 mess.Greatest achievement of my life was getting my branch badge after thirteen months I think that I had earned it. Would not have missed it for the world!!!! A long way to fall, even with a safety net.