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News and Events 24 May 2008: news reached us today Roy Murray has been taken ill and is in hospital in Houston, Texas. Everyone in the Dunedin Society wishes him a speedy recovery. New: HMS Dunedin poem, written by Bill Gill (RM and survivor) and read to the November 2007 Reunion. Read it here. New group photos here - can you recognise anyone? April 2008 Reunion, 24th November 2007: click here report and photos CPO Sandy Holland, WRNS, spent three days on Dunedin in March/April 1941. In her 90th year, she has told the Dunedin Society her story. Obituary (March 2007) and story of Commander Jim Suthers, Swordfish pilot. Sad loss It is with great sadness that we report the death, on 24th February, of Keith Mantell. Keith served in Dunedin from 20th October 1940 to 19th September 1941. Keith became a great friend of the Dunedin Society and will be sadly missed. Reunion November 2006 New and old members of the Dunedin Society gathered on Friday 24th November for an informal service of remembrance at the Naval Memorial, Southsea Common, on the anniversary of the sinking of HMS Dunedin. Click here for details. Our latest survivor The Dunedin Society is thrilled to announce that Bertie Jeffreys, one of Dunedin's 67 survivors of the sinking in November 1941, is alive and well and has been talking to us about his experiences. Bertie is now one of five living survivors that the Society is privileged to know. Bertie Jeffreys joined HMS Dunedin in 1938 as a Boy Sailor after spending time at HMS Vincent, the shore training establishment. He was with Dunedin until her end and was one of only three survivors left on a Carley raft when SS Nishmaha rescued the remaining men of Dunedin. Bertie intends to join us at the Royal Navy Memorial at Southsea for our annual service of remembrance on 24th November. |