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D' Day Operations Casualty group to the Harwich Ship the S.S. Amsterdam mined off the Normandy Beachhead 7th August 1944. Medals: 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star with bar France & Germany, 1939-45 War Medal, in original box with Mercantile Marine address on back and addressed to Mrs L.B. Stokes, 4 Bellman's Cottages, Fronks Rd, Dovercourt, (Harwich) Essex. Casualty slip from the General Register and Record Office of Shipping & Seaman, Cardiff. Notifying the death of Ernest Cornelius Stokes aged 45. Donkeyman Merchant Navy died on 7.8.1944. With Stokes Continuous Certificate of Discharge detailing all his voyages on SS Amsterdam from 1st January 1941. There are a number of interesting official papers confirming Stokes was killed on the Amsterdam. There is also a fascinating account from the BBC WW2 People's War from Patrick Manning a boy deck hand giving a vivid account of the Amsterdam's role in the D Day operations and its sinking. The Amsterdam carried the U.S. Rangers scaling the cliffs at the Point du Hoc. The ship was then refitted as a hospital ship. He describes the sinking in graphic detail including the sight of two nurses stuck in the portholes as the ship went down. (remembered in the recent D Day commemorations). An outstanding D Day Ops Casualty group with ephemera. EF
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