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Arthur Wait (front row, bottom right) and his class/fellow recruits at HMS Raleigh. The photo was taken during Royal Navy training.

Arthur Wait (seated, bottom right hand side), his twelve fellow recruits and their commanding officer at HMS Raleigh during Arthur's Royal Navy training. HMS Raleigh is the basic training facility of the Royal Navy at Torpoint, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Arthur Wait posing by one of the machine guns on board HMS Ark Royal. The photo was taken during Arthur Wait's naval service.

This photograph was taken during Arthur's active service in the Royal Navy.

Dates covered: 1940-1980. Arthur Wait was born in 1940. He came from a long standing naval family. He described life as a child in Birzebbuga and the hardships endured by the Maltese in the post-Second World War years. He recounted how he joined the navy and his life as a Maltese man in the British navy. He also mentioned the closing of the military base in Malta and how it affected those people who worked with the British Forces.

Arthur Wait recounted his life as a child in Birzebbuga and the hardships endured by the Maltese during the post-Second World War years. He described how he joined the navy and what life was like in the navy. He retired in Malta in 2007.

Arthur Wait described what he did when he was on leave and the relations between the British and the Maltese who worked with the navy. He mentioned the political situation in Malta in the 1960s and 1970s and the way this crisis affected those who worked for the British Forces. He returned to Malta in 2007.

This photograph was taken during Arthur's active service in the Royal Navy.

Arthur Wait in his first uniform after joining the Royal Navy

Arthur and his sister Gladys Wait dressed up for carnival during the post-war years.

Arthur Wait as a boy, with a home-made bicycle. Presumably taken near his home in Pretty Bay.

A photograph of Arthur, his brother and his sister, taken after the Second World War. Tony was born in Rabat on 7th April 1942. Gladys was born in 1938 at Cospicua (Bormla).

Arthur Wait, his brother, Tony and his sister, Gladys.

Arthur Wait's grandfather in his Royal Navy uniform.

Arthur Wait's paternal great-grandfather in his Royal Navy uniform.