Seamen onboard HMS Ark Royal receiving the beer transfer. The photo was taken during Arthur Wait's naval service.

Arthur Wait in his first uniform after joining the Royal Navy

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

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.

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

Arthur Wait by some bunk beds; Arthur on board a ship; a group photograph of Arthur with fellow seamen-in-training. The photos were taken during Royal Naval training.

Arthur (first from right) and three naval colleagues.

Arthur sitting on a bench in Plymouth outside the NAAFI club, with a Maltese sailor, M/E H. Woods from Zejtun.

6" guns, sailors and members of the public aboard HMS Lion.