There were a number of Fenmen who went to war in the British Merchant Navy.
Unfortunately I never met any of them, however when I first went to sea in 1970 I met several old sailors who had severed their country.
My friend Ben Killeen (RIP) from Eire, went to sea in 1942 and was bombed 3 times, and torpedoed twice, in a lifeboat for 3 weeks and lived to tell me his story.
Another friend Captain Rodman Tarbuck (RIP) entered his identures in 1945
I am as always very grateful to Whittlesey Royal British Legion who fly my ‘Red Ensign’ at the Whittlesey War Memorial on the 3rd September.
Merchant Navy Day was established in 2000 by HM Government and is on 3rd September each year, the anniversary of the start of the Second World War.
Ben Killeen 1944
Rodman Tarbuck 1945
