PRESERVING THE HISTORY OF COASTAL FORCES
REMEMBERING THE COASTAL FORCES VETERANS
The Coastal Forces Veterans Association (CFVA) was formed in 1974 and operated for some thirty-three years before its formal decomissioning took place in 2007. Below are some of the pamphlets produced during that period which help chart the history and achievements of the organisation
London Branch was the last CFVA branch to close after the death of its final Chairman, Eddie Dibley in 2024. For many years it enjoyed a special relationship with its host, HMS Belfast, moored on the Thames in London. This page contains portraits of some of it longest lived membership
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Those members of Coastal Forces who served in the Mediterranean, particularly in the later year of the Second World War, well recalled the campaign in the Adriatic in particular, and the their base on the Island of Vis at Komiza. For many years Coastal Forces Veterans made an annual pilgrimage to the Island, along with members of the Army and RAF. This page records the history of those visits to Vis
This selection of obituaries, which include two former Chairmen of London Branch, and one who was National Chairman, provide an insight into the lives of those who fought in Coastal Forces during the period 1940–1945
On this eightieth anniversary of the end of hostillities with Japan, and the complete end of the Second World War which cost millions of lives over its six years, we recall the fact that Coastal Forces members were enaged in fighting in the Far East in Burma, whilst more were earmarked to be sent out east to participate in the anticipated long drawn out campaign there. Ken Joyce, a member of the CFVA who lived in Australia, having emigrated there after the War, provides an account of the Motor Launch Gun Boats he served on. Ken Joyce Articles
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