Edward "Ted" Jones Whitehead
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- Participant in WW2
Londonregisteret:
Registernummer under krigen: London 56885.
Bror: William. Adresse: Pentre, Rhonde Valley, Glamorgan S. Wales.Uk
Fra bakside av rulleblad: "D.med iflg S.O.K. 19/4-88".
Ble torpedert på greske D/S Lily 9.3.1942.
"Down Below: Reminiscences of a World War II Engine Room Merchant Seaman," Edward "Ted" Jones Whitehead, 2018, fra bokomtale:
"At eighteen after leaving a literally rubbish job in England, Ted found himself at the Swansea sea port in South Wales. There is where his ocean going began during World War II in the dangerous engine rooms down below and his globetrotting journeys lasted for the next forty years. Ships took him to every continent except Antarctica and as a senior his wanderlust has not stopped. For the last thirty years, Ted has lived first in Australia and now has made his home in the tropics of Bangkok, Thailand. He has been profiled in Perth (The West Australian) and Fremantle (Herald) Australian newspapers while also writing several of his wartime experiences for them. As early as 1942, his local Welsh newspaper, Peglers, in the Rhondda Valley, reported several ship mishaps that had already plagued the young seaman. [...]
Ted takes the reader from his native Wales in the Rhondda Valley, to global journeys on numerous ships pursued by German U boats. The narrative takes the reader to Canada, where his ship the S/S Lilliy was torpedoed on his first Trans Atlantic crossing. After to New York, The Caribbean Islands including Trinidad (where he jumped ship) and beyond."
Sources
RA/S-2081/F/Fe/Feb/L0028
www.warsailors.com: http://warsailors.com/forum/read.php?2,64589,64589#msg-64589
"Down Below: Reminiscences of a World War II Engine Room Merchant Seaman," Edward "Ted" Jones Whitehead, 2018.
