240171 Ronald William "Cynewulf" Robbins Royal Navy Ronald Robbins volunteered early for the Royal Navy, he was born at 67 Alma Street, Abertillery. After his ship was sunk he was taken prisoner and held in Stalag XXB, where he created a secret camp newspaper, News from Nowhere, typed on a Nazi typewriter. News items were gathered via a radio stolen from a freight train and hidden in the latrines, which were so filthy, he would gleefully say, that the Germans never ventured there. He also recorded 3000 prisoner names for the Red Cross. He survived the Death March and returned home. He was formerly editor of the South Wales Gazette and he moved on to bigger things. He married Kathleen Briscoe locally in 1945.
I would like to find out on which ship he served.
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