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Here's a message that arrived via email. "I
would like to thank you very much indeed for all the information
about Diadem and particularly for the diary of John. I was born
5 days before the ship was launched and my father was Regulating
Petty Officer Daniel Victor Wells. Except that he was in the Royal
Navy and had been a boy on the Arethusa Training Ship I know nothing
of his service then. At some stage he joined the police and was
eventually allowed to rejoin the navy in, I think, 1941. I believe
that he must have joined Diadem when she was commissioned and as
far as I know served on her until just after the end of the war.
After this he returned to the Metropolitan Police until retiring
at aged 55 when he became an advanced driving examiner. From 1955
almost until his death he was heavily involved with the Sea Cadet
Corps becoming the C.O. of the Carshalton Unit in Surrey. Along
the way he received promotions ending up as a Lieutenant Commander
in the R.N.R. He died peacefully although from cancer at 78.
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