The Day Mother Had That Sinking Feeling ; Peterborough [Scot Region]
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THE YEAR was 1941. Mother, my two younger brothers and I had been reunited with my father, a service officer on the former Cunard ship, the armed merchant cruiser Aurania, at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
My father, Jack, was unexpectedly stationed in Canada, where we stayed for a year. One day, Mother came to us in a panic. She'd heard a wireless broadcast. 'The German High Command announced this morning that the Aurania has been torpedoed and sunk in convoy.'See the full content of this document
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The Day Mother Had That Sinking Feeling ; Peterborough [Scot Region]
Before she died, in 1984, Mum had written her memoirs, which I still find very evocative. She wrote: 'At first, numbed with shock then, as if in a dream, I went out of the house. A woman I knew stopped and spo...
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