大象传媒

My father spent the whole war at sea. Altogether, he had 7 ships sunk under him.He used to tell me in later years that he thought he was a Jonah He always said that he had never contributed much to the war as he wasn't at Dunkirk or D Day. However as I got older ,I realised that he had probably contributed much more than he would admit. He had been on the Atlantic Convoys and the Russian Convoys and according to my mother wouldn't talk about it because what he had seen was too painful to recall. My mother had lost her brother in the early war on HMS Glorious and shortly afterwards, while feeding me , heard on the radio (which always seemed strange to me) that my father's ship had been sunk. For nearly 12 months, she heard nothing but was then notified that he had been in hospital abroad, partly paralysed and they had had to put a metal plate in his skull. He returned to sailing without coming home. But as he would say "I didn't do much.It wasn't Dunkirk"

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