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This story was submitted to the People’s war website by Jenny Ford on behalf of Mr. Len Savage and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

“I was posted to Padgate early in 1941 and kitted out with tropical kit, the rumour going round was that we were going to Madagascar. From Padgate up to the Clyde bank where we boarded the T.S.S. Tamaroa, a cargo ship converted to a troop ship. We sailed to the mouth of the Clyde where the convoy was formed and off we went, almost to America then sailing south for some time, then back east anchoring just off the coast of Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Each day a bulletin was posted on the notice board letting the troops know how the war was going, etc. and it was the day we reached Freetown that the bulletin told us that the T.S.S. Tamaroa had been sunk by German U-boats and that there were no survivors! (Lord Haw-Haw, William Joyce had spoken). After a short stay we sailed down to Durban, South Africa where the ship was met by ‘The Lady in White’ singing ‘Rule Britannia’.�

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