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- 麻豆官网首页入口 Learning Centre Gloucester
- People in story:听
- Harry Wright
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- Arctic
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A8003080
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- 23 December 2005
Kola Inlet near Murmansk
This picture has been contributed to the People鈥檚 War by the 麻豆官网首页入口 Learning Centre on behalf of Harry Wright鈥檚 son John, with his permission.
Harry Wright was a petty officer on HMS Kent, a county class cruiser in the Russian convoys. HMS Kent joined the Fleet in Scapa in October 1943. From then until 1944 she patrolled the Northern approaches to the Atlantic and escorted more than 18 convoys to Russia.
This picture is from Harry Wright鈥檚 personal collection taken while he was on board HMS Kent. It shows a pier at Kola Inlet, near Murmansk
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