HMT Lancastria
BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
Brian James Crabb
2022
The 'Book of Remembrance' was launched on 18 February 2022. It contains a long list of all the known personnel lost in HMT Lancastria on Monday 17 June 1940 when the troopship was bombed and sunk off Saint-Nazaire in the Loire estuary.
It contains a Foreword by Fiona Symon MBE, a brief history of SS Tyrrhenia/Lancastria, a report by Captain Rudolph Sharp, known list of casualties, pictures of some of the Army badges, letter written by Wing Commander Douglas Macfadyen RAF, extracts from witness statements collected by G. S. Jordan, letters written concerning family members lost, Acknowledgements and thirty-five illustrations (not including the full colour cover).
The book measures 247 x 187 mm and contains 64 pages. The cost is £6 per copy, plus postage.
contact:
or telephone: 07811 582082
For Roll of Honour and List of Survivors of HMT Lancastria:
Click on The Forgotten Tragedy
and scroll down the long page
