Michelle Hackstetter writes:

Sub Lt Russell Bell would have been 21 on the 2nd of April 1944. I shall never forget him. I was 18 at the time and am going on 81!

We were school sweethearts and our relationship continued until his death. I have throughout my marriage and four children maintained ties with his family. Of his four siblings only his younger brother Graeme and his sister Lorna are alive.

I  left university and joined the Free French wrens a month after Russell was killed. I returned to complete my MA at Edinburgh university.

I never miss a Remembrance Day  ceremony and pride of place in my thoughts is the Asphodel and her crew although it is only recently that I have come across the names.

North Atlantic Convoy

 

 

Midships looking Aft

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