大象传媒

My father, who served in the Royal Navy for thirty-six years, was during the war a Yeoman of Signals. He served in all five theatre's of the 2nd World War, and had five ship's torpedoed or bombed from beneath him. One of them was HMS Dorsetshire, the cruiser that finally sunk the Bismark and later met her own demise in the Indian Ocean during April of 1942. Before my father died in 1989, he gave me a copy of an account he had written of the tragedy, penned two months after the incident, meant for publication, but suppressed at the time for security reasons. On this 60th anniversary of V.E.Day, it seems only fitting that his story should at last be told. If there are any other survivors of both the Dorsetshire and Cornwall out there, I would love for you to get in touch with me and tell me YOUR story. Hopefully, there will be room on another page of this site for me to type my dad's original account. It makes interesting reading! About me? Well, I'm merely a very proud and grateful daughter who had the good fortune to have a marvellous father who was also a war hero.