Il est question dans cette histoire du destroyer "Venomous" qui fit des allers retours rapides Douvres-Folkestone et Calais-Boulogne en mai 1940. Une histoire racontée par Bill Forster avec les témoignages des officiers dont Miraslov Stanley Lansky qui vit en France.
Pierre: I shall be representing him (Miroslav Stanley Lansky) at next Wednesday's reunion and laying the wreath on the memorial in the D-Day Museum at Southsea to the 62 men who died when CASSANDRA was torpedoed on the 11 December 1944.
ReplyDeleteA last Hurrah!
Lansky
On the 12 May 1945 HMS Venomous left Rosyth with Lt Cdr A.G. Prideaux RNVR in command and with a young sub lieutenant who could speak both German and Russian aboard. Venomous and its sister ship, HMS Valorous, were being sent to accept the surrender of German naval forces at Kristiansand South in Norway, Operation Apostle.
Miroslav Stanley Lansky was born in London but his parents were from Czechoslovakia and registered as aliens. Their son was a young Midshipman on HMS Cassandra when its bow was blown off by a torpedo near Murmansk in Arctic Russia on the 11 December 1944 and joined HMS Venomous in February 1945. He is the only officer alive today who served on HMS Cassandra when it was torpedoed and on HMS Venomous when it accepted the surrender of German naval forces in Kristiansand. After the war he worked as a translator for the United Nations in New York, Bangkok and Geneva and lives in France. He is convalescing after breaking a leg but his wife and daughter have helped me tell his story.