Now while researching our family history I found that one of my relations had died aboard HMS Li Wo on 14/2/1942 in the Bangka Straits Singapore.

Now HMS Li Wo was a steamer from China that had been pressed into Service and although badly damaged by air attacks the Captain got together a scratch crew to attack a Japanese convoy escorted by one heavy cruiser and a number of Destroyers. HMS Li Wo had one 4 inch gun and 13 rounds of practise ammunition. They sailed into the Japanese Convoy and sank the largest Japanese Transport ship that they could find before the ship was sunk. The captain went down with his ship and there were about seven survivors from the crew. After the war when the story came out HMS became the ship to win the most decorations for a single action including the VC. Needless to say my relation did not survive either, also his father had been killed in the Dardanelles Campaign in Turkey


http://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/b...tliwocrew.html


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Great story!

That's quite an incredible story!