Britain's forgotten watermen to be remembered

[gbclive]

An interesting article in The Telegraph.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/27/britains-forgotten-watermen-remembered-wartime-sacrifice/

[Tom Morgan]

Many boatmen joined the army as fighting troops and it's right that they should be remembered.  The Royal Engineers had a very large Inland Waterways and Docks section, with boats ferrying war material to ports, as well as providing hospital barges from the fighting zones via canals and rivers to the ports in France and Belgium.  The members of these units weren't exposed to the same dangers as their fellow in the trenches, but their work was vital.  "The Canals at War" is a poorly-recorded aspect.

 

 

Edited October 28, 2018 by Tom Morgan