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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D6631
Title	Frank Byard of Belper, stoker in the Royal Navy
Date	[20th cent]
Description	Items of World War II memorablia, mainly of HMS Birmingham, and other items concerning east Derbyshire.
Level	Fonds
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Archive Creator	Frank Byard of Belper, stoker in the Royal Navy
Administrative History	Frank Byard (1919-1996) served as a Leading Stoker in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Most of his time served seems to have been spent aboard HMS Birmingham, which was built in Plymouth in 1937 and decommissioned in 1959. An account of the torpedoing of HMS Birmingham is available on the BBC People's War website (www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar) and a photograph of the damage done is included in Scrap Book 1 of this collection.
Custodial History	Donated by a private individual in June 2006.
Organisation Sub-Type	Military personnel
Related Material	See also D5398 for records of the Stone and Byard families of Belper, including other records of Frank Byard. Artefacts belonging to Frank Byard were transferred to the Royal Naval Museum.
Term	Second World War (1939-1945)
	Navy
	Naval personnel
	Sailors
	Military personnel