Post by Administrator on May 15, 2018 21:50:57 GMT
Arctic Convoy veterans pay tribute to fallen comrades
THREE veterans of the Second World War have returned to the Highlands to pay tribute to their old comrades who sailed on the Arctic convoys to Russia.
Bernard Roberts, 91, from Cardonald, James Docherty, 92, from Dalmarnock and Edwin Leadbetter, 92, from Newton Mearns will take part in a ceremony in Wester Ross on Sunday to commemorate the wartime mercy missions, which claimed 3,000 lives.
Between August 1941 and 1945, a total of 78 convoys travelled between Scotland and northern Russia, taking four million tonnes of supplies to the Soviet forces, including 7,000 planes and 5,000 tanks.
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THREE veterans of the Second World War have returned to the Highlands to pay tribute to their old comrades who sailed on the Arctic convoys to Russia.
Bernard Roberts, 91, from Cardonald, James Docherty, 92, from Dalmarnock and Edwin Leadbetter, 92, from Newton Mearns will take part in a ceremony in Wester Ross on Sunday to commemorate the wartime mercy missions, which claimed 3,000 lives.
Between August 1941 and 1945, a total of 78 convoys travelled between Scotland and northern Russia, taking four million tonnes of supplies to the Soviet forces, including 7,000 planes and 5,000 tanks.
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