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SS Mendi – England Centenary Commemoration 2017

  The centenary parade to mark the loss of the SS Mendi was held at Southampton’s Hollybrook Cemetery on the 20st of February. The site memorialises 2000 soldiers who died…
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HMSAS Southern Floe

Badge of H.M.S.A.S. Southern Floe which was picked up in an Italian dugout in the Desert by a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the North African Campaign.…
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South African Seaward Defence Force Anti-submarine Flotilla, WW2

We remember the flotilla of South African whalers converted for military service during World War 2, and the loss of the men aboard the HMSAS Southern Floe. A number of…
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