Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing As thousands of the poppies

As thousands of the poppies used in the installation tour the country during the remainder of the First World War Centenary

All Midshipmen kept a journal

The scale of the installation was intended to reflect the magnitude of such an important centenary and create a powerful visual commemoration

As a naval officer he saw from sometimes uncomfortably close range the excesses of war and astounding technological advances witnessing huge shifts in the geo-political landscape

its real impact on the Soviet war effort

Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing As thousands of the poppiesNever to Return tells the story of the Russian convoys and the heroes who sailed in them with particular focus on HMS Achates. Roderick G Maclean has gathered primary and secondary source material to give a detailed and illuminating analysis of the Russian Convoys. He tells of the commodores who came out of retirement, risking their lives to navigate convoys to Murmansk and Archangel; the doctors who diced with death, jumping from one ship to another