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Re: Attack on HG-73, 26th September 1941
Posted by:
Mark McShane
()
Date: April 30, 2012 07:41AM
kathy allan Wrote:
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> MY DAD WAS ONE F THE SURVIVORS FROM THE SS
> LAPWING, MY FAMILY AND I VISITED CLIFFDEN AND ALSO
> WALKED AROUND THE CHURCH WHERE THE PHILLIPINO
> SEAMAN IS BURIED. I HAVE AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT
> HAPPENED WRITTEN BY MY DAD AND A COPY OF THE
> NAVIGATION TO REACH IRELAND BY CAPTAN KLEMP, THERE
> IS A COPY OF THIS ACCOUNT IN THE LIBRARY IN
> DUBLIN. ALL THE SURVIVORS WHERE TREATED TO TEA AND
> BISCUITS BY THE McNAMARA FAMILY WHO LIVE IN
> CLIFFDEN AND WHO OWN THE COTTAGE WHERE ALL THE
> SEAMEN STAYED AFTER THEY WHER PICKED UP. A LOVELY
> FAMILY TO WHOM I WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. MY DADS
> NAME WAS THOMAS CAMPBELL WHO WAS JUST 17 YEARS OLD
> AT THE TIME.
Hi Kathy,
Many thanks for your message, I wish we could have started to correspond a couple of years earlier. I will send you an email later todayregarding your father & Lapwing.
Kind regards,
Mark
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> MY DAD WAS ONE F THE SURVIVORS FROM THE SS
> LAPWING, MY FAMILY AND I VISITED CLIFFDEN AND ALSO
> WALKED AROUND THE CHURCH WHERE THE PHILLIPINO
> SEAMAN IS BURIED. I HAVE AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT
> HAPPENED WRITTEN BY MY DAD AND A COPY OF THE
> NAVIGATION TO REACH IRELAND BY CAPTAN KLEMP, THERE
> IS A COPY OF THIS ACCOUNT IN THE LIBRARY IN
> DUBLIN. ALL THE SURVIVORS WHERE TREATED TO TEA AND
> BISCUITS BY THE McNAMARA FAMILY WHO LIVE IN
> CLIFFDEN AND WHO OWN THE COTTAGE WHERE ALL THE
> SEAMEN STAYED AFTER THEY WHER PICKED UP. A LOVELY
> FAMILY TO WHOM I WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. MY DADS
> NAME WAS THOMAS CAMPBELL WHO WAS JUST 17 YEARS OLD
> AT THE TIME.
Hi Kathy,
Many thanks for your message, I wish we could have started to correspond a couple of years earlier. I will send you an email later todayregarding your father & Lapwing.
Kind regards,
Mark