Edward Heels and Victor Haggith

Production date

26th November 1943

Object number

2014.254

Physical Description

Black and white photograph, Edward Heels and Victor Haggith

Associated Person

Heels, Edward (Mr) (Subject of)
Haggith, Victor (Subject of)

Material

Photo

Dimension

Width (Whole): 211mm
Height (Whole): 159mm

On display?

Inscription

VICTOR HAGGITH, the 16-year-old merchant seaman who has been speaking in Oxford during Merchant Navy Week, addressed a lunch-hour canteen meeting at Morris Motors, Cowley, yesterday, and is seen shaking hands with (left) EDWARD HEELS, now working at Morris Motors, who was a merchant seaman ine the R.M.S Rangitani, which was sunk by a surface raider in the Pacific. The Germans had some 300 prisoners aboard whom they could not afford to feed, so they put them ashore on the island of Emereu, where there was a native population and where they lived for five weeks until rescued.
Oxford Mail 26 Nov 1943