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- cornwallcsv
- People in story:Ìý
- Peter Gilson
- Location of story:Ìý
- Falmouth and Danzig
- Article ID:Ìý
- A8708628
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 21 January 2006
CWS 180804D 16:11:22 — 16:12:05
This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clarkon behalf of the author Peter Gilson. His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. The Trebah Gardenn Trust understand the site's terms and conditions.
The Germans couldn’t have got enough during their first visit to Falmouth so early in 1939 they came again and the same thing happened again. I have a service sheet from the Parish Church and one half of the sheet is printed in German. They sang some of the verses of the hymns in German. It’s rather ironic that once they had sailed away, some of the first shots fired in the Second World War on September 1st 1939 were from this vessel, the Schleswig Holstein. They fired on Danzig to start the Second World War. That was the goodwill mission to Falmouth!
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