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Royal Navy Survivors

Minnie – the ship’s Cat

Minnie - the ship's Cat

“Ship’s cat HMS Dunedin. Lost when ship was sunk by U-boat on 24 November 1941”

Minnie & Kittens

Photograph sent home for Christmas 1940, by Lt-Cmdr Sowdon: His caption is – “Minnie eats her dinner but her family was fidgety so had to be held”

Thanks go to Tommy Handley and Anne Randall (Lt-Cmndr Sowdon’s daughter) for these photographs.