Finishing as an instructor and special duties at Cliff, Laurence Biggs joins Costal Forces and MTB 243. It was his story that while serving on MTB 243 and on a special operation, it sunk of the coast of Netherlands, December 1944.. It was while in the freezing waters of the North Sea that the promised was made to serve God. A promise he fulfilled. That promise would take the family from the United Kingdom to a new life in Australia.
Another of many mystery discovered while writing: According to the service record of Laurence Biggs, he is Mentioned in Dispatches. The Mentioned in Dispatches however, is not recorded in the ‘Honour the Navies’ or the companion volume ‘Honour Those Mentioned’.
Laurence Biggs served on ML243 and later on MTB 5003 until discharge from the Royal Navy in 1946.