...following day, but the liberty ship on which they were travelling, the Sambut, was sunk by German gunfire in the Dover Strait around noon on...
hi. I have just found out that Private George Simpson 4343272 was my Great Uncle. My Grandads brother.
...the foot of the gangway. TD REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE INVASION OF NORMANDY (PART 2) [Allocated Title] Film Number: A70 36-4 It also mentions Sambut
...Samarovsk (Br) 7,219 1943 IWM Photos B 005215 (& B 5214?) Sambut (Br) 7,219 1943 Shelled in Dover Strait, burnt out Samdel (Br) 7,291...
The Liberty ship Sambut, carrying troop reinforcements and supplies, left Victoria Dock on the Thames on June 3, 1944 to join a convoy at...
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...the disappearance and unit are mentioned. The missing people from Sambut that I could identify are mentioned on the memorial. Nowhere have I...
...in Normandy, France dated 6th June, if he had been on board the SAMBUT which sank off Dover...? I'm certainly no expert, but subsequently, I...
...men from 92 LAA were killed in the shelling of the liberty ship Sambut in the Channel. An eighth man died three days later of wounds assume is...
...men of 1st Bn. King'Own Scottish Borderers were aboard Liberty ship Sambut on 6th june 1944. Corporal William Graham Kennedy was killed and is...
...Bayeux Memorial. As 12 men of this unit were on board Liberty ship Sambut, can someone tell me if he was lost at sea. Thanks for your help Claude
In his interrogation, the Master of the Sambut, Mark Willis, did indicate 562 invasion troops on board; there were 63 crew; he also gives 2...
...Rob says (above), Peter Elphick's book gives the total on board the Sambut as 562 troops and 63 crew. Elphick puts the death toll at 136 – 130...
...that there is nothing to certify that they were on board the Sambut ; 7 names of this unit are mentioned on the Bayeux memorial for 6th june...
...then there are several existing threads on the subject of the Sambut - http://ww2talk.com/index.php?search/5383617/&q=sambut&o=relevance that...
Hello, the Liberty Ship Sambut was sunk by coastal artillery in the Dover Straits on 6th june 1944. According embarkation roll, 1 officer and 12...
...Samarovsk (Br) 7,219 1943 IWM Photos B 005215 (& B 5214?) Sambut (Br) 7,219 1943 Shelled in Dover Strait, burnt out Samdel (Br)...
BBC - WW2 People's War - 92 LAA Regt. Loss of the SS Sambut on D-Day TD [IMG]
Great stuff, the British Liberty ship that was shelled, set on fire and abandoned was the Sambut
...involvement in D Day is in rescuing personnel from the Liberty Ship Sambut which was sunk by German coastal guns off Dover. Most of the rescue...
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