Convoy Service
Heroes Remember
Convoy Service
Transcript
Description
Mr. Andrews discusses the value of the Royal Navy in shepherding convoys in British waters against the threat of German submarines.
George Andrews
George Andrews was born in August, 1900 in Point Leamington, Newfoundland. He was the eldest of five sons and attended the Salvation Army and United Church schools to age thirteen, at which time he went to work in a lumber camp. Mr. Andrews enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1916, serving aboard both the HMS Loch Maree and HMS John Barry. Mr. Andrews contends that without the Royal Navy, the war would have been lost.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:14
- Person Interviewed:
- George Andrews
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- First World War
- Branch:
- Navy
- Rank:
- Ordinary Seaman
- Occupation:
- Gunner
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