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Charybdis Weekend is held in Guernsey each year to commemorate not only the sailors and marines who lost their lives, but also the bravery of the islanders. On 23 October 1943 HMS Charybdis was ...
Nearly 500 men were killed when HMS Charybdis was torpedoed in the Bay of St Malo as it tried to intercept a German convoy in October 1943 A 75-year-old woman has paid her respects to her father ...
Guernsey is 'owed a debt of gratitude' for remembering the loss of 500 men in World War II, according to a survivor of the sinking of HMS Charybdis. About 300 people turned out at Le Foulon ...
The two remaining survivors of HMS Charybdis met at the National Memorial Arboretum to mark 80 years since the boat was hit by German torpedo boats. A total of 464 men lost their lives when the ...
A 97-year-old Royal Navy veteran has gone swimming for the first time since surviving his ship being sunk by German torpedoes during the Second World War. Nursing home bosses arranged for Roger ...
In 1943, two British naval ships - HMS Charybdis and HMS Limbourne - were struck down as a result of a German torpedo attack. The two shipwrecks lie 80 miles off the coast of Brittany. Members ...
A 100-year-old World War Two commando has inspired the next generation of Royal Marines during a visit to the Commando ...
Care home bosses arranged for Roger Roberts to go for his first dip in 80 years after HMS Charybdis came under attack in the English Channel in 1943. Roger was aged just 17 when his vessel was ...
Roger Roberts, 97, went for his first dip in 80 years after HMS Charybdis was destroyed in 1943 – leaving him stranded in the middle of the sea. Some 464 people were killed, with Roger being ...
John saw combat with HMS Charybdis in the Mediterranean on the Malta Convoys in 1942 and was involved in the invasion of Sicily in the summer of 1943. He survived the sinking of Charybdis by ...
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Leslie Wilfred Hearn was one of nearly 500 men who died when HMS Charybdis was torpedoed on 23 October 1943 as Royal Navy ships attempted to intercept a German convoy in the Bay of St Malo.