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From: "Elizabeth Teir" <>
Subject: Northglen News 1 October 2004
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:17:51 +0200

As no attachments are permitted I will type only the first paragraph of the article:

Under the Heading Ray remembers epic battle:His book is an eyewitness account of the sinking of the Bismarck.

For many of us World War II occupies a distant place in history, far removed from our everyday lives, yet immortalised for a generation who paid heavily for the price of freedom. For Durban North's Ray Lock the recent publication of his book Bismarck, Dorsetshire and Memories, is a recollection of events documenting his eyewitness account to one of the major historical events in WW II that has rightly found a place in historical archives. In 1939 at the tender age of 16 Ray eager not to miss the action of WW II falsified his age by two years and managed to enlist as a seaman for Royal Navy. After spending a couple of moths undergoing military training at the Natal Command in Durban Ray was assigned as a crewmember aboard the battleship the Dorestshire. His book is an eyewitness account of the events that led to the sinking of the Doretshire on 1942 5/4. ........

The book will be available from Adams Bookstore shortly.

Kind regards
Elizabeth

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