Amanda Visits Site Of Lancastria WW2 Tragedy | Who Do You Think You Are
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- Amanda Holden has always heard stories about rumoured French ancestry on her mum's side, and her investigation uncovers an extraordinary Napoleonic-era cross-channel romance. On her dad's side, Amanda's grandfather's suicide has always loomed large. But when his story takes Amanda to France once again, she is moved to discover how he helped others through a harrowing tragedy.
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My Great Grandfather William Winstanley died on the Lancastria. RIP X
My Father survived the Lancastria tragedy with badly damaged legs that still had shrapnel embedded in him until he died. The physical scars healed, unlike the mental scars which stayed with him forever.
The Can’t Hardly PlayBoys omg...tears. X what a man to survive that. X ❤️♥️🙏🏽
My nans brother was killed on Lancastria. He was 24. Very sad.
@@mymy1646 He will always be a hero for so, so many! God Bless Him! I thank you for his sacrifice.
My Dad was at St Nazaire to be evacuated. The Lancastria was there but he and his men were told to get on another ship that was to leave earlier. They had wanted to get on the Lancastria because it was large and looked the best of the ships there for the evacuation. He was lucky and it probably saved his life. He served all through the war up to 1946 when he was demobbed.
Was your dad in the Royal Army Service Corps?
So tearful. Amazing how anyone survived at all. RIP those lost.
That gentleman was right, it was kept a secret. Here, they tell us that it was the largest loss in the British maritime arena, yet, Amanda had never heard of it. You would think it would have been taught in school.
She's not a bright woman.
It was hushed up for some suspicious reason.
I'd never heard of the Lancastria myself before this and a lot of others probably haven't heard of it either
@@GregoryLancaster-rf7ceYou clearly didn't watch the whole thing. It was explained.🙄😤
I was not prepared for all of these feels 😭😭 My daughter just turned 2 yesterday and I can only imagine the desperation of the parents
Talk about a story to make a movie out of. A story of heroism, losses, & love... even a baby rescued by being carried by her father's teeth. Amazing
agree
I might have seen a movie based on that part of British Military history when the Britain, Belgium and France evacuated. I think it was a 2017 film called Dunkirk.
Thanks for posting. My grandfather and uncle were on this ship. The stories♥️
Imagine the survivor's guilt that her grandfather (and indeed, the others including this woman who survived as a 2-year old) must have felt throughout his life. Perhaps that was too much to bear.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the captain of the Lancastria had no say in how many people would board his ship. His demand for an escort and fear of submarines tells me he clearly saw the danger and potential of loss of life if they were attacked. Of course his fears came true.
You can understand the dilemma surely? Difficult to leave people behind to capture and Prisoner of War camp
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So lucky to have the chance to find out about your heritage🙏🏽
People may have heard of the evacuation at Dunkirk but almost no one knows of the two other evacuations at Cherbourg and St Nazaire.
Or St Valery. It`s not just the Lancastria that was forgotten. Everything involving BEF operations in France post-Dunkirk was obscured by a news blackout and resulted in everything from the 4th to the 25th of June 1940 effectively disappearing from history. People today seem to believe that the entire BEF was evacuated at Dunkirk and British involvement in France ended there, not so as we see here.
I was born in 1949 in Crosby, we lived next door to Jim Dunbar the Chief Engineer, who was like an extra grand parent to me. I should’ve asked him so many questions, but he probably wouldn’t have wanted to talk about some of it to a nine year old?
So, I am sorry, I could have learned so much from him and my father but it was still raw for those people, I suppose?
My Grandfather Ray Waters was a Lancastria Survivor but the experience affected him deeply for the rest of his days. RIP to all. x
My Dad got out safely from this ship.
My mothers uncle was a stokerman in the lancastria one of the best swimmers there was but unfortunately did not have the chance to escape.
If he worked in psychology and he made it to his seventies then I wonder if there was a medical issue that made him feel a quick death was better? If I was looking down the barrel at a debilitating disease and was already in my golden years I might make a similar decision.
Thought of that too.
Thank u for telling the story
It was such a morale crusher it was not released..
It should’ve been reported after the war.
What s memory the survivors had to live with for the rest of their lives. Like s reoccurring nightmare that just won't go.
Very moving.
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Such a sad story indeed - but the question is - why was it kept in kind of secret compere to Titanic ??? Such a disaster - the 2WW Was really 🙏🙏🙏
Morale and not giving knowledge to the enemy.
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Omg this made me cry
So moving......
The file in the Records Office is still closed until 100 years after the event, I believe.
There is some Secret still to be disclosed, I am sure?
Maybe at age 70 your grandfather took his life because he had felt that he had lived a full life, and nothing more was to come. Likely he went in peace, if that theory is correct. I know of other elderly who have felt they had reached the end of their journey.
It’s difficult to accept, but most sinkings go forgotten to history, especially those that happen during wartime. Often times the most deadly sinkings go forgotten or largely unknown, and it’s tragic, these things should be remembered, it’s crucial that we do, otherwise the lives of those lost are forgotten. It’s complete chance other disasters are remembered more, particularly due to coverage. Sadly sinkings are a concequence of war, like many atrocities are, there were countless throughout WW1 and WW2, so many have been forgotten :(
Anniversary tomorrow 17th June.
Eternal father strong to save, for those in peril on the sea
The story of the Lancastria was not the only ' secret' of the war that Churchill 'forgot ' to mention.He also omitted the terrible bombing of Liverpool, the death and destruction of the city and the vitally important docks. The place where all the merchant ships came in from America ,with food and ammunition etc. Like the Lancastria he 'forgot ' it permanently . Again at the time it was about 'moral'. but no excuse for after the war. imo
The Western Approaches destination.
there is a memorial at Strathclyde University to the Lancastria. Westminster Government kept it all quiet at the time.
My great uncle William thomas Milton was aboard that day
Why do people today not understand the difference between 'rammed' and 'crammed'? Do they not speak English?
This was not the biggest loss. Over 900 Americans died the day before D Day in a practice preparatory bosrding which was spotted by German U Boats which sank them.
JAMES Rivis I’m confused by your comment...they said an unknown amount of 1000’s died in the Lancastria disaster...the biggest loss in British Maritime History...now read your comment and think. 👍🏽 🙂😉
If you listen further Churchill records 5000 men died in his diary....
Obviously, you got the facts wrong. The troops were practicing landing for D Day and were attacked at night, by German surface type boats , similar to US PT Boats, and 700 troops lost their lives. Eisenhower was enraged about the disaster but kept it secret until after the war like the above stories. War is hell. Accidents happen and in the end all those who died were hero's for their country.
Also in a stuffed troopship in the filthy Sea mud off Cherbourg, to a mine I believe, post DDay. Many, many lost. RIP.
The death toll has been estimated at between 6500- 7000
No matter how you feel about the sinking , It was a great performance by the bomber crew.
Vankas lost everything eventually. Gut.
It needs to be pointed out that "Lancastria" was a legitimate military target.
Different hostess or host would have worked better.