Re: Churchill's atlantic convoys
I was Galley Boy on the La Cumbre (Burries and Marks, 18-3-55 to 22-1-56). The Second Cook and Baker, then Ship's Cook, "Nobby Clark" served as a Catering Boy, on the North Atlantic run and his ship was sunk, but they managed to get into lifeboats. He was the only one not to suffer from frost bite, as two females, perhaps WRENS aboard his MN ship (he told me, but I have forgotten) opened their clothing and sandwiched him between their warm bodies. Their body heat saved a limb if not his life.
There must be thousands of untold valiant stories like this from that terrible time that never are told, bless them all.
Cheers, Rodney
Rodney David Richard Mills
R602188 Gravesend