Trevor Burwqard-Hoy

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Name: Not givenJoined: January 23, 2012, 8:31 pm
Last Active: February 3, 2012, 12:27 pm

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I am a physicist working in the US. My father Frank Burward Hoy service number 4460 was a driver in the 4th. RMT. He was on the Hellas when it was bombed. He had related his experiences to my brothers and I but omitted most of the horror that he witnessed. The story that he relayed was identical to that in your article. He was below decks and escaped via a port hole and a drop down to a barge that had been pulled alongside due to the draft of the boat. He landed on the narrow gunnel, walked around on it and pulled himself up onto the deck via the tube canopy frame of a truck blown over on the wharf. He made his way to the warehouse and safety. (relatively speaking) He lost all his kit and a quite valuable violin. When the bombs struck he was in a companionway below decks. He said that a bomb went through the boat and exploded low down sending a column of fire up through the deck. A Greek nurse standing next to him threw her arms around his neck in panic. He shrugged her off and he said she ran in absolute panic straight towards the roaring flames and vanished into them. He was quite effected by this experience. I have in my possession a number of photos that he took though out the middle east during the war that I would be happy to share as part of our collective history. He joined the Kiwi Concert Party on returning to Egypt. He met up with a small command party of English officers which he joined and left Greece via a destroyer that raced back to Alexandria. He slept on the forward deck of the destroyer on the trip back to Egypt and related how the forward turrets opened fire right above him scaring him out of a deep sleep and out of his wits.

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