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Violet Tunstall (far left) and other survivors of the torpedoed ship, 1941 |
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Newspaper report of the incident |
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Kindergarten class, in Shillong,聽Assam, 1934.聽 Michael is crouching in the front row聽- his cousin聽is at the end |
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Mother, father and younger brother, Guy,聽July 1940 |
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Torpedoed!
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In 1941, right bang in the middle of World War II, Violent Tunstall decided to聽travel from her home in Assam to visit her two sons at school in England.聽All went well on the voyage over, but it was a different story聽on the return journey. As聽Violet's ship passed through the Irish Sea, it聽was hit by a torpedo and sank.
20 years ago, Violet recorded her experience. Her son, Michael, sent us the tape聽and we invited him along to the studio to聽talk about why his mother's recording聽means so much to him.
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