I heard I may have the opportunity to march at the Cenotaph wearing his medals in November as a carer for the current veterans.
It's just sad that all the men in this photo are longer with us.
Those who followed the campaign for recognition may recognizance the man in the middle. Cmdr Edward Grenfell.
http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/top...convoy/?page=2
It's been so interesting to listen to their stories over the years.
Also pretty heart wrenching hearing 1st hand experience about seeing ships torpedoed and survivors in the water being left to die.
In later years my dad became obsessed by the U-Boats and had so many books on them. One of the U-boats (U-409) his destroyer sunk he had a bit of memorabilia from. a survivor from the crew gave him a pack of Krigsmarine issue cigarets un opened. He still had them till several years ago. When the boat surfaced and the crew were scrambling for life rafts and jumping ship they were not shot at. they let all surviving crew escape and rescued them. U-boat.net is wrong to a degree. it was forced to surface then sunk by gunfire.
The cigeretts he gave to the imperial war museum before my parents moved to a smaller place. The historian who he gave them to said he had never seen them before.