- Contributed by听
- TJCleaver
- People in story:听
- Charles William (Or James) Hall, Anne Lydia Hall, Charles James Hall, Mary Hougham, Barbara Cleaver, Anne Lydia Hall
- Location of story:听
- Deal, English Channel of Dover
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A4233331
- Contributed on:听
- 21 June 2005
This is the story of my grandmother's great grandmother's child.
Charles William (or Charles James) Hall
Charles was a merchant seaman and was a British prisoner of war on the Altmark. He and many other British prisoners were onboard this German ship that was getting bombarded by British war ships. Charles managed to get onto the deck of the ship and he rang the bell. This told the British ship there were prisoners of war on board. The Germans abandoned ship and the British ship saved the British prisoners of War. This happened I believe of the coast of Dover as reported in local newspaper reports in the English Channel.
Charles was born in 1877 child of Anne Lydia Hall (nee Norris) and Charles James Hall. He died on the 15th May 1945 at the Mary Hougham Almshouses in Deal, Kent. He is my Grandmothers Barbara Cleaver, Great Grandmothers child.
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