by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, February 1945
NPG x166833
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, February 1945
NPG x20530
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, February 1945
NPG x20531
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, February 1945
NPG x20532
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Keith Saunders
11 February 2019, 06:59
George Hector Creswell was my grandmother‘s half brother. He was a Rear-Admiral in ww2 and was also a pet. I love this poem of his, entitled “Arctic Convoy - 1944”
“Thanks be to thee, this dark and screaming morning
Though one ship drifted, helpless, out of sight
Yet we all swim together in the dawning
We all have cleared the perils of the night “
It speaks of the sailors fear of night time attack in the convoys and the relief of surviving to see the morning