- Contributed by听
- denis price
- People in story:听
- Barbara Greaves and the LLoydd Sisters.
- Location of story:听
- Cardiff and the North Atlantic.
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4263644
- Contributed on:听
- 24 June 2005
Told to Denis Price of the People's War Team, the 大象传媒 Open Centre, Hull, by Barbara Greaves of Barton on Humber.
I remember being at school in Cardiff, I'd just turned twelve so it must have been either late 1939 or 1940. There was a large evacuation of children to Canada going on, the method of travel in such large numbers was by sea. Two of these evacuees, the LLoydd sisters, were about the same age as me and schoolmates of mine even though I didn't know them personally. They were going on one of the large liners being used for these evacuations, theirs I think was the SS Athenia.
After they'd left I recall the Headmistress, Miss. Potter, announcing sadly to the whole school at Assembly, that the two girls had been lost with the ship along with many others. It had been torpedoed by a U Boat in the North Atlantic.
It was a tragic irony that the girls had been lost going to safety and the rest of us remained in heavily bombed Cardiff and survived.
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