262461 Cdt. William Alexander Delap Merchant Navy SS Brecknockshire My father, William Delap served from 1917 to November 1918, first as a cadet on SS Brecknockshire of the Royal Mail Steam Packet company when she was torpedoed off Brazil by the German raider SMS Mowe on 15th of February 1917, and then as a prisoner in a POW camp in Brandenburg, Germany until the end of the war. I have his diary, photo album, and post cards which give direct insight of what the men went through. He was only 18 at the time.
He tells his story wonderfully himself in the little diary, which I have typed out. His name features in the "Index of British Fishermen and Merchant Seamen taken Prisoner of War 1914 to 1918" compiled by Marcus Bates in 2008.
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