Post by KG on May 29, 2018 17:37:43 GMT
'The young generation should know': Britain's forgotten Merchant Navy heroes
On June 6, 2002, Donald Hunter stood on the beach at Arromanches for that year’s D-Day commemorations and resolved to right a wrong. ‘It was a lovely evening. We’d just been laying wreaths – it was quite moving – and I thought of the men who have been forgotten, wiped off the map.’
Hunter is a Merchant Navy veteran who served at D-Day in 1944. Along with members of the armed services who gave their lives in Operation Neptune, some 2,450 merchant seafarers died.
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On June 6, 2002, Donald Hunter stood on the beach at Arromanches for that year’s D-Day commemorations and resolved to right a wrong. ‘It was a lovely evening. We’d just been laying wreaths – it was quite moving – and I thought of the men who have been forgotten, wiped off the map.’
Hunter is a Merchant Navy veteran who served at D-Day in 1944. Along with members of the armed services who gave their lives in Operation Neptune, some 2,450 merchant seafarers died.
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