Английская Википедия:Archibald Dickson (WWII)

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Archibald Dickson was a British seaman who was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1892 and died in the North Sea in 1939.[1][2] He was a hero of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Naval career

Dickson was the captain of the SS Stanbrook, a British merchant ship that rescued almost 3,000 Spanish Republicans in the port of Alicante, in Spain, during the night of 28 March 1939.[3]

On November 18, 1939, at the beginning of World War II, the SS Stanbrook was torpedoed in the North Sea by U-boat Ou-57. Archibald Dickson died on board.

Memory

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Memorial to Archibald Dickson in Alicante.

His memory is celebrated by the cities of Cardiff[4] and Alicante, in Spain, and by the Tower Hill Memorial in London.[5]

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