Gairsoppa

[Hugh Ferguson]

Clich HERE (www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a3563732.shtml) for a story about The Sole Survivor.

[eriskay]

A poignant account, Hugh, good work and well done.

Angus

[tsell]

Thanks for that Hugh.
Did you ever find any of the three girls?

Taff

[Sister Eleff]

A sad story that they had travelled so far and then died within sight of land. I am sure the families were very grateful for the pictures Hugh and that someone had taken an interest in their relatives.

[Hugh Ferguson]

No,Taff, I never traced one even though I spoke to somebody living in Lizard Town who remembered them but nothing came of it. I even joined an evacuee association and posted their names, but to no avail.

And, Sister Eleff; When we went to photograph the gunner's grave (Norman Haskell Thomas) it looked a bit stark so we (my wife & I) borrowed some flowers from an adjacent grave just to brighten it up a bit. His elderly sister was touched by the gesture and wrote very movingly about a brother who had evidently been very dear to his family.
I would dearly like to have contacted just one of those girls: there were in fact five evacuees and all were named. Whatever became of all of them. Surely, they didn't all emigrate to Australia