FLEET AIR ARM MEMORIES

From the photograph collection of the late C.S.Snoxell.

Claude Sylvester Snoxell started his naval career as a boy sailor on HMS Arethusa. He joined the Fleet Air Arm as a Wireless-Telegraphist-Air Gunner and spent the period 1923-1941 with Britain’s carrier forces. Among the ships on which he served were H.M.S. Argus , H.M.S. Courageous , H.M.S. Eagle and H.M.S. Furious. He saw service around the world with the majority spent in the Far East and in 1941 joined the Naval Training Establishment at Worthy Down. He retired with a rank of Chief Petty Officer and died in 1971. He was buried at sea off Portsmouth in 1971 with full military honours.

During the period in which these photographs were taken, C.S.Snoxell flew in the following types:

• Avro Bison I & II
• Blackburn Blackburn I & II
• Bristol F2B Fighter
• Fairey IIID Mk I & Mk II
• Fairey IIIF Mk I, Mk III & Mk IIIB
• Fairey Swordfish I
• Westland Walrus
• Fairey Albacore
• Fairey Fulmar
• Fairey Barracuda

For details of his postings and representative aircraft flown, see his career profile page.

In the following pages, there are a selection of photographs from the 1920’s to the 1940’s from his collection as well as various documents.

A photograph taken during an exercise while stationed in China in the late 1920’s.

C S Snoxell in the 441 Flight W/T hut at Calaprana, Malta in 1926.

C S Snoxell around 1945.

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