231076 A/Sgt. John Bramley Mellor British Army 153rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps from:Helper John Mellor served with No.153 Field Ambulance and was involved with helping displaced persons after the cessation of hostilities and father stayed in the RAMC overseas until 1946. In the family album there are photographs from on the Baltic when the war ended, printed from some negatives he brought back. I remember him saying that there were hundreds of bodies in the sea from German ships carrying refugees that had been sunk by Russian submarines. I subsequently saw a TV programme describing this incident. The Wilhelm Gustloff, one of the ships sunk, was carrying over 10,000 of which few survived.
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