The “Arctic Convoys – Men and Ice” exhibition opens this Monday in Edinburgh and tells the stories of survivors of the Arctic Convoys. These were the brave sailors who worked in some of the harshest conditions of the war, on board ships, on frozen, icy waters in bitter cold Arctic winds, all the time fearing the German U-boats below. The […]
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Bobby, a brave sailor from Blantyre
This is a wonderful true and factual story sent in to me from Arlene Green about her great Uncle Bobby, a young sailor from Blantyre who died in the Second World War, aged only 22. It was a lovely spring day in Blantyre and Jean carried a big bucket of soapy water out to her […]