Roy Halliday

[3] After three months period on anti-submarine patrols in the north Atlantic, Halliday was posted to a shore station, RNAS Hatston in Orkney, guarding against sorties by German warships.

Halliday had transferred to HMS Victorious by the time of the Meridian air raids by the British Pacific Fleet on oil refineries near Palembang on 24 January.

[4] Whelp's first lieutenant, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, lent Halliday a spare uniform and subsequently accompanied him on a "run ashore" in Fremantle.

[2] Halliday was back on Victorious in time to take part in the raids on the airfields on the Sakishima Islands in March to May 1945,[3] for his efforts, he was awarded a DSC in addition to the Mention in Dispatches earned during Operation Meridian.

The 104th swept left-over Japanese mines in the Celebes Sea and chased pirates, who desisted once the ready use of capital punishment by the civil authorities became known.