Jump to content

almossah

Members
  • Posts

    3
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Reputation

10 Good

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1. In June 2020 I applied on behalf of Commander Jack Croasdaile's daughter for the award of the Arctic Star. Anyone who served north of 66° 32’ North latitude is eligible. Bleik, where the survivors made landfall, is 69° North, so all Vandyck crew qualify. Today his daughter received his medal.. In case anyone else is inclined to apply, you will need to be persistent and jump through the MoD bureaucracy hoops.
  2. have some more information on HMS Vandyck. My great Uncle, John Lloyd Croasdaile was in the RNVR and was assigned to the Vandyck at the start of the war. I believe he was 1st Officer. He also was a painter, and painted a series of 9 paintings showing the Vandyck during its all too short career. Apparently he made sketches on the inside of match boxes and converted them to paintings later. I don't know when he painted them. You can link to them here. http://www.mossclan.co.uk/family_tree/Jack_Croasdaile/Vandyck_paintings/index.htm Jack Croasdaile remained a prisoner throughout the war. His story is particularly tragic as his wide and children were killed on the SS City of Benares during an evacuation to the USA. More information on this, his other paintings, his WW1 service on the Yangtze River, photos in PoW camps and his life with Cunard (he reached the rank of Staff Captain on the Queen Mary by 1939) are here. http://www.mossclan.co.uk/family_tree/Jack_Croasdaile/index.htm Apparently the Vandyk's bell is on a tower in the town of Bleik on the island of Andøya. https://goo.gl/images/Evz3Z6 and https://goo.gl/images/R6jid3 If anyone has other information on the Vandyck and its crew, I'd be interested to see it.
  3. Hello all, I'm Peter, and have registered primarily to be able to post to a thread on the HMS Vandyck. So my contributions may be somewhat limited. However, I hope that what I do post is of interest and leads to further discoveries of wartime history.
×
×
  • Create New...