From the archive: Quiet heroes

Janet Scott continues her series on the Friend and the first world war and tells a dramatic story of shipwreck and survival

by Janet Scott 28th April 2017

The story of the shipwreck of Rendel Harris in the autumn of 1916 was recorded in the Friend at the time and quoted in this series before Christmas (25 November 2016). On his way home Rendel Harris was, unfortunately, shipwrecked again. It was a terrible twist of fate. The Friend carried reports of the incident and the story gradually unfolded in its pages during late April and May 1917. The accounts are brought together here. In the issue of 20 April, the Friend reported: