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William J. Carter
Royal Navy HMS Vandyck

My grandfather, William J. Carter, was a POW at Oflag IXa from June 1940. He was an engineer on HMS Vandyck which was bombed (on 10th June 1940) and sunk off Norway on the way to helping in the evacuation of Narvik. He was there for the duration of the war. He died in 1957.

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