Seventy years later, ship’s crew remembered at British Cemetery on Ocracoke | Irish Sun

Seventy years later, ship’s crew remembered at British Cemetery on Ocracoke

News & Observer Monday 7th May, 2012

Tom Cunningham considers it a great act of generosity that the people on the small island of Ocracoke would set aside a plot of land to bury his father and three other British sailors 70 years ago.Sub-Lt. Thomas Cunningham was one of 37 crewmen aboard the HMS Bedfordshire when it was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of North Carolina on the night of May 11, 1942.The Bedfordshire, a fishing trawler outfitted with guns and loaded with ...

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