Neglected Heroes of the Sea; Veterans of Russian Convoys Gather at Loch Ewe to Remember - and Ask for Recognition at Home
Sunday Herald › September 13, 2004
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A PALE autumn sun shone on the men of the Russian Convoy Club yesterday, as they gathered high over Loch Ewe to pay their respects to those who died on the wartime convoys which set out from here for the icy waters of the Barents Sea and Murmansk.
The wind gusted through old gun emplacements, whipping around the group of around 30 elderly men in uniform, their wives and a handful of locals who had turned out to mark the fifth anniversary of the dedication of a sandstone memorial to their fallen comrades. It might as well have been a blizzard.See the full content of this document
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Neglected Heroes of the Sea; Veterans of Russian Convoys Gather at Loch Ewe to Remember - and Ask for Recognition at Home
"We were almost hoping for bad weather because that would be a taste of what these convoys went in," confided Jock Dempster, chairman of the Scotland branch of the Convoy Club, who at 76 is its youngest surviving member.
He added: "This cliff used to be the last sigh...See the full content of this document
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