My Lancashire (Liverpool) father was Robert Edward Mackay Campbell Ingham, born September 1912. When he was five, his father died when his ship, the "Laurentic" was torpedoed off the coast of Northern Ireland in January 1917. Robert, or Bert as he was known, went to train on the Training Ship "Indefatigable" when he was twelve, and then went to sea as an ordinary seaman, and later an Able Seaman. He had come ashore by the time I was born in 1936, but because of his background at sea, was called up for service the minute WW2 broke out, and he served right through the six years of the war, taking part in the Dunkirk business, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Malta Convoys, the Russian Convoys, and finally Tobruk. He came physically unscathed through the war, although the psychological scars of war took their toll and sadly he died in 1953, aged only 41, when I was 17. I still miss him and would love to ask him all the questions that I never had the chance to ask during our short relationship after the war. I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak about him on this list, as I am the only remaining member of my family now and very few people remember him. Marged ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3964/7672 - Release Date: 06/13/14