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Entries from September 2011
BBC video about call for medal for Arctic Convoy veterans
September 21st, 2011 · No Comments
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BBC News story about 70th anniversary
September 2nd, 2011 · No Comments
A ceremony was held on Sat 20 August 2011 at the Wester Ross memorial, above Loch Ewe, north-west Scotland mainland to mark the 70th anniversary of the first Arctic convoys. Operation Dervish, which ran from September 1941 to December 1944, saw ships gather in Loch Ewe before setting out to Murmansk and Archangel.
More than 3,000 [...]
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