I AM hoping Citizen readers can help a group of old sailors to trace a missing shipmate.

We last met up in 1951, when we came home from the Korean war.

A group of us got together after a gap of 40 years and one mate is always mentioned but no one has seen him for 48 years.

All we know is that he lives in Preston and like us, he is no longer a teenager!

He was a stoker mechanic and we knew him as A 'Rosie' Lee on board HMS Cockade, between 1949-1951.

Tom 'Scouse' Boden ex Royal Navy, 18 Albert Road, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2SR

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