- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- Hilda Hayward
- Location of story:听
- English Channel
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4478736
- Contributed on:听
- 18 July 2005
In September 1939 I was in Belgium. Other British people were returning to England in anticipation of war and I was one of the last to leave.
I crossed the channel on The Princess Charlotte. On its return trip and just before war was officially declared the boat was sunk by a German submarine.
A lucky escape for me but not for the poor Belgians returning home, all of whom were killed.
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