"When the evacuation of children by sea was in full swing last summer, 350 children, were going to Canada in the Volendam. The ship, torpedoed in the darkness without warning, was in imminent danger of sinking. The escorts marshalled the children. There was no panic, no flurry; a dozen small boats were launched into a rough I sea; and the children sang 'There'll Always Be An England.' The children were saved, but in the confusion a boy of nine was left in the [ship. He awakened in the middle iof the night. Asked, later, whether he was afraid, he said, 'I was rather, sir/ What did he do? His reply was: 'I went back to my cabin and went to sleep.' In the morning he sighted two British destroyers and waved to them."—Mr Geoffrey Shakespeare, M.P.; reported in London "Times."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 79, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 79, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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