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Troop Ship Strathallan

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Mrs Helen PORTERFIELD. Sister 246676, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Enlisted 8 October 1942 died 21 December 1942. She was a passenger on British Troop Transport ship Strathallan when at 02.23 hours on 21 Dec 1942, U-562 fired a spread of four torpedoes at convoy KMF-5 about 40 miles north of Oran. There were 16 who lost their lives and 5106 survivors. She is not listed with the CWGC.
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She is commemorated on image. Wartime Nurses The Fallen Neus - Robinson CA
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Harry Nicholson
21 Dec 2021:
Today, in 1942, the trooper Strathallan was torpedoed off Oran in North Africa. She carried 2000 troops and 250 Queen Alexandra's nurses.
A elderly lady, Liz Turner, was a member of our art group in Robin Hood's Bay (she died about 2007). Liz spoke about how her ship was torpedoed off Oran, and she took to the boats with many other Queen Alexandra nurses and was landed at Oran. As she was helped off the rope ladder and over the gunwhals of a destroyer, the matelot declared: 'Lummee, a skirt!' I assume she was a survivor of Strathallan.
She was a cultured lady and a fine artist - she must have lived into her 90s.
Harry Nicholson
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