Post by Administrator on Aug 23, 2016 23:12:15 GMT
Russian medals for Eden war heroes
AN answerphone message purporting to be from the Russian Embassy was ignored by Sheila Edwards who thought it was a hoax — but the following day an attaché from the embassy suddenly turned up at her home at Knock with a medal and a letter from President Vladimir Putin.
“He was wanting to do a formal presentation and I was just sitting there in the garden. I was surprised, to say the least,” said Mrs. Edwards. “I thought what a lovely thing it was to send an attaché round to individuals.”
The attaché, Oleg Shor, was touring Cumbria presenting the Ushakof Medal to Arctic convoy veterans or their relatives and wanted to honour the service of her late husband, Dennis, a former naval officer who died in 2013.
He was only in his early 20s when he served on the wartime convoys to Murmansk — something Churchill described as “the worst journey in the world”. There were huge losses of life and ships as the convoys took essential supplies across the North Sea from Britain to Russia during World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, the Arctic route claimed 104 merchant and 16 military vessels and thousands of Allied seamen lost their lives.
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AN answerphone message purporting to be from the Russian Embassy was ignored by Sheila Edwards who thought it was a hoax — but the following day an attaché from the embassy suddenly turned up at her home at Knock with a medal and a letter from President Vladimir Putin.
“He was wanting to do a formal presentation and I was just sitting there in the garden. I was surprised, to say the least,” said Mrs. Edwards. “I thought what a lovely thing it was to send an attaché round to individuals.”
The attaché, Oleg Shor, was touring Cumbria presenting the Ushakof Medal to Arctic convoy veterans or their relatives and wanted to honour the service of her late husband, Dennis, a former naval officer who died in 2013.
He was only in his early 20s when he served on the wartime convoys to Murmansk — something Churchill described as “the worst journey in the world”. There were huge losses of life and ships as the convoys took essential supplies across the North Sea from Britain to Russia during World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, the Arctic route claimed 104 merchant and 16 military vessels and thousands of Allied seamen lost their lives.
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