SS Strathallan Interior - Kindly sent in by Adrian Cottle
Shades Of 141- Photo Provided By Heydon Buchanan
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The Strathallan in it's wartime grey paint
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Cape Town letter card (resized)
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Operation Torch Ship Convoy
German U-boats Surrender
Winston Churchill Prime Minister UK
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Tom Geraghty 1st Parachute Brigade
Tom Geraghty 1st Parachute Brigade
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The Merchant Navy Association
Harry Tate's Navy
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Jim Gormley
Stan Hambrey Royal Air Force
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1940 Reg Gill from army paybook
Parachute Regiment training jump1942
Spitfire Pilots Algeria
HMS Laforey
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Queen Alexandra's nurse emblem.
Margaret Bourke White
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Margaret Bourke White a Life Magazine Photographer who was actually on the Strathallan when she was hit by a torpedo.
Cyril Stanley Waller
Anne Dullard (married Grange)
Parachute Regiment blazer badge
Parachute Regiment
Lt Commander Geoff B Mason RN
Harry Greening
British War College
British War College
HMS Nelson - British Battleship
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Leonard Shuttleworth 26th Armoured Brigade
8th Army Brigade North Africa
Anne Dullard (married Grange)
HMS Lightning
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Churchill Return from Canada
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German U-Boats in dock
Wellington Bombers
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Goering
General Dwight D Eisenhower
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Survivors Boat
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The SS Strathallan
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Strathallan at Vickers Boatyard Barrow
The SS Strathallan being built as Barrow England
Strathallan at Vickers Boatyard Barrow
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Strathallan at Vickers Boatyard Barrow
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The SS Strathallan on fire
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Royal Naval Destroyers 1942
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Christmas Menu
Wellington Bombers
U-Boats in dock
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Dave Hunt - Kings Own Regiment
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Jim Gormley
Sir Winston Churchill
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SS Stratheden
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J McGregor
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HMS Panther
American troops on board a landing craft
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Howard Baker
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HMS Lightning
Lt. H.W. Buchanan 1941
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Harry Greening
Lifeboats from The Strathallan
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Lt. Buchanan
Stan Hambrey
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Lifeboats
German 88s Cassino
Jim Gormley
George Garside
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trathallan at Vickers Boatyard Barrow
Stuka Bombers
Jim Gormley
George Henry Garside
This photo was taken in Italy showing dad with General (Sir) Harold Alexander. According to dad, General Alexander was really the soldier's soldier. I could tell by dad's words--as well as the look of joy on his face--that he was happy to have his achievement acknowledged by Gen. Alexander
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Gen. Alexander and Dad
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It was uncertain how the Vichy French would react - they were not friendly especially after the fracas at Oran in July 1940, when the British Navy were ordered to fire on French warships, which were laying in harbour, to prevent them from falling into German hands. Ships were sunk and a large number of French sailors were killed because the Petain Government were not prepared to break the terms of the Armistice signed with Germany (Hitler) on the 22nd July 1940. Included in this agreement was a provision for the French fleet to be demobilized, disarmed and laid up in home ports, while the Germans in turn declared it did not intend to use the fleet for its own purposes in the war; although this turned out to be a joke! Nevertheless, the sensitive issue was deemed to raise the thought that the French may be more amenable to the Americans than the British, if they were given the impression it w
General Erwin Rommel
Location of Sinking
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HMS Panther
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Robert Kennedy
Stan Hambrey Royal Airforce
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Just arrived in Algiers
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American troops on board a landing craft
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Gen. Alexander and Dad
1942 Ras Acarta
Comments from Janet Robbins
finally made my trip to visit my brother in the UK, and went through my father’s WWII scrapbook! It’s really an amazing recounting of his experiences overseas, starting with the ill-fated journey on the Strathallan in December 1942. He later served in North Africa and Italy (always with the RAF Regiment), attached to the US 5th and 8th Armies. He was awarded the MC and the US Bronze Star during the Italian campaign. The scrapbook will eventually go to the RAF Regiment archives in the UK. There are many interesting photos of what life was like in the services during the War.
Anyway, I’m attaching just a few here that relate specifically to the Strathallan, including a photo of the ship’s menu for 17 December 1942, when as my father comments, the seas were apparently so rough! One is a newspaper clipping describing some of the nurses who rowed the lifeboats, including quotes from Margaret Bourke White’s article. Then there are a few snapshots of my father’s group after they finally landed on terra firma. And a couple of single photos of my father, one when they had just landed, the other somewhere in N. Africa.