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Ast Stwd, Cyril Thompson
Royal Navy SS Orama
from:Barnsley
Cyril Thompson was my grandfather's cousin, b 1917 and died about Feb 1986.
I have a wartime photograph of him, as well as the letters he sent to to my grandmother and grandfather during the war. He was in Marlag und Milag Nord camp.
His younger brother Dennis, b 1919, was killed on his 25th birthday on the beaches at Normandy.
Cyril was unaware of Dennis's death until after the war when he returned home and his family broke the news to him (my father is the only person alive now who was there).