211246 Gnr. Terence Galloway Royal Navy HMS Campania My father Terrance Galloway served on HMS Campania as a gunner I guess during 1944/45. Getting any information out of him was difficult to impossible, he just would not talk about this time. But in his 70's he opened up just the once and described the Arctic convoys. The cold was the worst thing. As I said he was a rear gunner, and after his four hour shift he needed to be lifted out of his seat, as his clothes had frozen solid around him. It would then take the rest of the night to warm up. The other anecdote was watching a torpedo coming straight at the ship, frozen solid he couldn't move, thirty yards out the torpedo sank, they were just out of range! And that is it, my only knowledge of his war exploits.
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