Author Topic: HMT Lancastria - World War 2 (17/6/1940)  (Read 37554 times)

Offline Drew5233

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Re: HMT Lancastria - World War 2 (17/6/1940)
« Reply #72 on: Monday 20 June 16 07:43 BST (UK) »
Thanks a lot ! It's only been running since March and I already have nearly a 1,000 followers. Next month I'll be offering free 1940 research on individual soldiers that fought in France as long as the inquirer will allow me to post the story on my page.

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Re: HMT Lancastria - World War 2 (17/6/1940)
« Reply #73 on: Monday 20 June 16 10:07 BST (UK) »
As I'm not on Facebook, thank you for the information. I compiled an article with the basic information on the sinking combined with the very little I knew of my late uncle Pte David Emlyn Evans, and enclosed all the original War Office paperwork my grandparents received and sent it to the Imperial War Museum. In conversations within the ex-service community, there are still very many that were not aware of the sinking, and even those that did, did not know of the size of the disaster.
Evans; Davies; Locke; Stafford; Lawrence; Moore; Angrave; Sparrow; Harrold; Billington; Wilson; Freestone; Horsley; Norton; Cave; Page; Kettell; Abell & Whapples.

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Re: HMT Lancastria - World War 2 (17/6/1940)
« Reply #74 on: Monday 17 June 19 20:10 BST (UK) »
"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know."  - Donald Rumsfeld

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