A close up of the inscription on the grave stone of Fireman S Ali. I hope that we will be able to get it translated in due course.
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2 comments:
very impressed. would be very interesting to find out how they ended up in dover, I'm sure I read in one book that the survivors were picked up by another ship bound for Dover.
jim
Looks like arabic to me. I'll see if any one I know can give us a translation...
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