Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website



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Thomas Norton

Navy HMS Hunter

My Grandad was on the HMS Hunter and was sunk on the 10th April 1940. He was then taken prisoner and held in what I belive to be a school where he and his fellow men hid a torch in the gutter ready to signal to the ships at sea, but in their attempt to do so the torch was knocked down the drain pipe. My Grandad was then take to Sweeden and and there he signed papers to say that he would not take up arms against the Germans again. He did this knowing that due to his age he would not be called up again to fight. He also served in WW1 where he was also sunk twice in the same day. How unlucky can one be or in his case how lucky was he to survive both wars. Are there books or organisations that I can find out what happened to the men when they were taken prisoner?



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