November 14, 2013
Tapscott and Widdicombe were visited by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
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A royal visit for survivors
WILBERT Roy Widdicombe and Robert Tapscott were found on a beach on Eleuthera in October 1940, the sole survivors of a British merchant ship which had been sunk off the coast of Africa two months earlier. The sailors survived a perilous journey on the high seas, but as we reveal in the second part of their story, tragedy was to strike again in both their lives.
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