WW11 Veteran (Royal Navy) Peter, tells his story from when
the war began as a fourteen year old lad who ran away to sea leaving his
mum in tears, he sailed to North Africa in a convoy delivering supplies
on a merchant ship.
At the age of 16 he joined the Royal Navy and served on HMS
Belfast as signalman and describes the extreme weather conditions on board
during the protection of the North Atlantic Russian Convoys.
Peter gives an emotional description of the sinking of the German Battle Cruiser
Scharnhorst and the D-Day landings.
He relays his story from past memories of an innocent young
man thrown into war, death, and destruction like so many others during that
period
