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Peter Warren joined the S.S. Ashlea, owned by Morrison's of Newcastle upon Tyne as a cadet officer in 1938. In Octber 1939 the Ashlea was sunk by the German battle ship, Graf Spee. Ashlea's crew were eventually transferred to the Altmark, a German tanker which acted as a prisoner of war ship. Warren, and the others on board the Altmark, would be later be rescued in Norway by H.M.S. Cossack.

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A written account of Warren's war time experiences and associated letters