WWII Royal Marines Okinawa Medal Group, comprising 1939-1945 Star, Burma Star with Pacific bar, Defence Medal and 1939-1945 War Medal, photographs many annotated, training notebook, active service personal diary, HMSO booklets and manuals, service papers, naval messages, other general ephemera; all reflecting the remarkable wartime experience of Marine Harold Cave Williams RM. Marine Williams was born in Sheffield in April 1925 and lived in the Meersbrook area of Sheffield. After leaving school, he became a joiner's labourer. Following the outbreak of WWII, he waited until he was old enough for Military Service and in July 1942 at the age of 17 years, he volunteered to join the Royal Marines. He was accepted and joined Plymouth Division, Royal Marines for training until March 1943. He was then assigned to the warship HMS Newcastle for a short but eventful period to June 1943. Thereafter, he served on shore establishments in the Indian Ocean before joining the ship's company of the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious in August 1944. The carrier was actively engaged with Japanese Forces in the Far East, launching many aircraft sorties against the Imperial Japanese Air Force which retaliated with aerial assaults against the carrier. By March 1945 HMS Victorious was assigned to the US Fleet in the Pacific Ocean to assist with the American invasion of the Japanese Island of Okinawa In early April 1945 HMS Victorious suffered the first of many deadly Kamikaze attacks and these were described by Marine Williams in grim detail in his diary entries. In early May 1945 HMS Victorious was hit on two occasions by suicide aircraft and suffered a number of dead and wounded. Eventually the ferocity of the Japanese attacks diminished and the carrier continued with launching airborne strikes. By June 1945 the ship arrived in Australia where Marine Williams disembarked for a return voyage to Great Britain, where he was discharged from duty in July 1946. He subsequently married, had children and worked as a bus driver in Sheffield. He passed away in 1990.