- Contributed by听
- actiondesksheffield
- People in story:听
- Mary Curran (now Allen)
- Location of story:听
- Garrowhill, near Glasgow
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7166973
- Contributed on:听
- 21 November 2005
This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Norman Wigley of the 大象传媒 Radio Sheffield Action Desk on behalf of Mrs Mary Allen and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.
In 1940 I was 6 and my brother would have been 2陆. I learned after the war that we should have been evacuated to relatives in Ontario, Canada on the SS Benares, but we were not allowed to go because there was something wrong with our visas. We had to stay at home in Garrowhill, near Glasgow, Scotland.
The ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk, and it is very likely that if we had sailed we would not have survived.
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