Late 1940, two Welsh Brothers Kenneth James Lewis and Raymond Leslie Lewis walked onboard their first ship.
She was the Cardiff registered cargo ship SS Fiscus, 4,815grt, (W.H. Seager Co. Tempus Shipping Ltd).
Within a few weeks both would be dead after the ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-99 on the 18th October 1940
in the North Atlantic with the loss of all but one crew while sailing to the Clyde from Sydney, Cape Breton in Convoy SC-7.
A tragedy in itself made worse by the fact they should never have been onboard to begin with.
Kenneth Lewis was only 14 years old, His Brother Raymond 15.
The two boys are believed to of forged a letter from their Father stating he had given permission for them to join the ship.
Kenneth and Raymond Lewis are commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London on Panel 49.
Two of the youngest serving Merchant Seamen killed in WWII.
Raymond Leslie Lewis and Kenneth James Lewis.
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