Seventeen hundred naval ratings who, under the accelerated demobilisation order, will be in civvies for Xmas, came home to Portsmouth from the Mediterranean in the carrier HMS Illustrious. There was a big crowd of relatives at the dockside to welcome them home. Photo shows Daddy home again. Little Susan Kelly, aged two, of Weymouth, was at Portsmouth to greet her Leading Seaman father off the Illustrious. - 11th December 1947. 固opFoto