? - Today is Dunkirk Day - Titanic to Dunkirk - and 80 years on -

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 - Dunkirk, Pas-de-Calais, France - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Dunkirk_Memorial%2C_Dunkerque%2C_Nord

Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller DSC (1874-1952) should be remembered today for the acts he and his crew achieved :

The Sundowner "was requisitioned" by the Admiralty on 30 May. Lightoller insisted that, if anyone was going to take her to Dunkirk, it would be him and his eldest son, Roger, together with Sea Scout Gerald Ashcroft. The men transported 130 soldiers back to Ramsgate, reportedly packed together like sardines, almost capsizing when they reached the shore.

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Amazing story!

Answer 1

I expect he knew from the Titanic just what it felt like to be stranded and hoping for rescue.

What a wonderful man.