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RIP Jack French D.S.M: Remembering HMS Amethyst

by | 4th, May 2011

FOR some years, Anorak readers have been relating tales of HMS Amethyst.

Reader Charlie writes:

Regretfully we have to announce the Death of Jack French D.S.M.

Jack “Crossed the Bar” 4/5/11. He was the Telegraphist on board Amethyst during The Yangtze Incident April 1949 and was awarded the Distinguish Service Medal.

In the 1957 film “Yangtze Incident” the actor Ray Jackson played the part of ‘Jack French’

READ: How Anorak reunited the men. (Thanks again, Cheryl.)

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While the men of the "Yangtse Incident" have been receiving a heros' welcome home, Simon, the ships cat of HMS Amethyst and winner of the Dickin Medal - the animals Victoria Cross - has been resting at the Hackbridge Quarantine Kennels in Surrey. * Simon recieved the award for catching rats and protecting food supplies during the time the ship was trapped by the Chinese.



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