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- Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2005
- People in story:听
- Robert Lea
- Location of story:听
- Nova Scotia
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A4365704
- Contributed on:听
- 05 July 2005
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In 1941 I was in the Royal Signals and we were on the boat from Glasgow. Our boat was called the Warwick Castle and we were part of a massive convoy. One night, in a huge fog, we hit the boat in front of us which was called the Windsor Castle. I remember we all stood on the deck with our lifebelts on, ready to evacuate - next morning we discovered there was no convoy, just ourselves left!
However there was no time to worry about it. Later an armed merchant boat came alongside us, and a couple of days later a few Canadian destroyers joined us, and we all ended up in Nova Scotia, Ontario. We spent 6 weeks in Canada. I think we were the first troops to have landed there since General Woolf!
They found us another boat, the Stratheden, and we joined another convoy and ended up in Egypt.
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