johnpritt
26-Aug-04, 11:58
Hello, can someone clarify something for me?
I saw from the Wick Cemetary page on the Caithness.org website that the cemetary has a graves of servicemen, including a number from HMS Exmoor.
My uncle -- Norman Pritt -- died on HMS Exmoor when she was torpedoed off Lowestoft in February 1941.
Is this the same HMS Exmoor? And if it is, can someone explain how the bodies ended up in Wick Cemetary? Lowestoft to Wick is a long way -- although the convoy that the Exmoor was escorting was a north-bound from the Thames to the Firth of Forth. Is it possible that bodies would have been picked up by other ships in the convoy, and that one of them would have arrived in Wick?
Many thanks for any information that you can give!
I saw from the Wick Cemetary page on the Caithness.org website that the cemetary has a graves of servicemen, including a number from HMS Exmoor.
My uncle -- Norman Pritt -- died on HMS Exmoor when she was torpedoed off Lowestoft in February 1941.
Is this the same HMS Exmoor? And if it is, can someone explain how the bodies ended up in Wick Cemetary? Lowestoft to Wick is a long way -- although the convoy that the Exmoor was escorting was a north-bound from the Thames to the Firth of Forth. Is it possible that bodies would have been picked up by other ships in the convoy, and that one of them would have arrived in Wick?
Many thanks for any information that you can give!