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Alexander Chalmers
Royal Navy HMS Bedouin
from:Johnstone
Sandy Chalmers, my grandfather, was posted to the Bedouin on 15th March 1939 (the day it launched) and served as a stoker until sank on 15th June 1942. My grandmother, having been informed by telegram that he was missing in action, learned that he had been captured by the Italians after a Catholic Cardinal visited the prisoners, noted addresses and followed through on his promise of a postcard.