Hall and Heppenstall Family

John William Hall was born in 1919 and had gone to sea since 1933. On one trip, he had been told he was going on the Malta Convoys but ended up on the Arctic Convoys to Russia instead. "Of course, they'd all turned up with a summer gear to go to Malta. So they were having to go around beg, borrow or steal any bit of clothing and he said it was the coldest he ever been in his life on the Russian convoy." One of the ships he was on was torpedoed and they had to abandon ship; luckily everyone was rescued. John was mainly aboard Atlantic Convoys during the war but also a Russian Convoy and a Malta... Mehr ...