VE Day 80

[Sarnia Kevin]

 

[Eggs]

….Lime St, you can only imagine the joy & relief as well as the sadness of so many not returning home;

 

[Rita_Poon]

 

[davek]

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God bless them. The problem is they are ALWAYS forgotten, the merchant men, probably because they were mostly from Liverpool.

30,000 merchant seamen dies in WWII - proportionately the highest casualty rate of all arms of the services.

 

[davek]

Eastenders doing their VE Day edition...

...me 'kin toes are curling.

 

[Cecil]

God bless them. The problem is they are ALWAYS forgotten, the merchant men, probably because they were mostly from Liverpool.

30,000 merchant seamen dies in WWII - proportionately the highest casualty rate of all arms of the services.

Great grandad was a butcher in the Merchant Navy, was on the Arctic Convoys to Arkhangelsk. Brave man.