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Comprehensive and detailed ts memoir (56pp, written in 2007) of his family's time spent in South Africa, 1941- 1944, where his father, Squadron Leader A Ross-MacDonald helped to establish No 42 Air School, RAF. The memoir gives details of his family's voyage from Glasgow on the SS CITY OF NAGPUR from Glasgow, which was torpedoed on 29 April 1941, their rescue by the destroyer HMS HURRICANE and temporary return to the UK, before sailing once more, on the destroyer HMS ULYSSES via Nova Scotia, Canada and Freetown, Sierra Leone, arriving in Cape Town in November 1941. It comments on their onward journey to Port Elizabeth, where he and his two older brothers attended a boarding school, and of their happy outdoor life spent there, before returning to the United Kingdom in March 1944, on RMS ANDES. The following months were spent itinerantly, staying with various relatives in and around the Chipping Sodbury area, until his father was killed in September 1945 and the family moved to Cambridge. The memoir concludes with a brief introduction to the family's fortunes over the next sixty years, which included periods of National Service for two of the brothers, and is accompanied by several copies of newspaper cuttings relating to the sinking of the SS CITY OF NAGPUR.
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Comprehensive and detailed ts memoir (56pp, written in 2007) of his family's time spent in South Africa, 1941- 1944, where his father, Squadron Leader A Ross-MacDonald helped to establish No 42 Air School, RAF. The memoir gives details of his family's voyage from Glasgow on the SS CITY OF NAGPUR from Glasgow, which was torpedoed on 29 April 1941, their rescue by the destroyer HMS HURRICANE and temporary return to the UK, before sailing once more, on the destroyer HMS ULYSSES via Nova Scotia, Canada and Freetown, Sierra Leone, arriving in Cape Town in November 1941. It comments on their onward journey to Port Elizabeth, where he and his two older brothers attended a boarding school, and of their happy outdoor life spent there, before returning to the United Kingdom in March 1944, on RMS ANDES. The following months were spent itinerantly, staying with various relatives in and around the Chipping Sodbury area, until his father was killed in September 1945 and the family moved to Cambridge. The memoir concludes with a brief introduction to the family's fortunes over the next sixty years, which included periods of National Service for two of the brothers, and is accompanied by several copies of newspaper cuttings relating to the sinking of the SS CITY OF NAGPUR.
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