{"id":979,"date":"2016-11-29T16:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=979"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:37:01","slug":"si-cannocks-international-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2016\/11\/29\/si-cannocks-international-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"SI Cannock&#8217;s International Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carole Holdcroft, President of S I Cannock welcomed members and guests to the annual International Evening held at the Barns recently.\u00a0 Their speaker was Phil Shanahan; his subject: the real Enigma Heroes. Using pictures to illustrate his talk Phil told his audience about three brave unsung heroes whose action had a major effect on the outcome of World War 2, although for decades no-one knew of the role they had played. It is said that, because of them, the war was shortened by as much as two years.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Grazier and Tony Fasson served onboard HMS Petard. Their objective was to track down U boats.\u00a0 On 30<sup>th<\/sup> October 1942 they had spent 10 hours hunting a U boat; at night, in the pitch black, they hit it and the U boat surfaced close to HMS Petard.\u00a0 Search lights illuminated it and the German crew were taken onboard under guard.\u00a0 Colin Grazier, aged 21, then did a very brave thing: he dived into the sea and swam to the U boat, joined by Tony Fasson, 29, and by Tommy Brown, aged 16, a canteen assistant.\u00a0 Between them they captured as much information connected with the naval Enigma \u2013 including the vital code books \u2013 as they could.\u00a0 The U boat went down, taking Colin and Tony to their deaths; Tommy very sadly died two years later, in a house fire.\u00a0 Their bravery enabled those working at Bletchley Park to crack the coded messages being sent via the naval enigma machines. Colin Grazier and Tony Fasson were each posthumously awarded the George Cross for bravery whilst Tommy Brown was awarded the George Medal.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Grazier came from Tamworth and when the story was discovered a sculpture entitled \u201c3 Anchors Sculpture\u201d was erected in Tamworth to the memory of all three men.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimist and Historian Janis Lomas gave the vote of thanks to Phil for such a fascinating talk.<\/p>\n<p>A raffle held on the evening raised \u00a3125 for the SI Emergency Fund which is used to provide instant aid to disaster hit areas all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-CD-Int-night-2016-5-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-980\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-CD-Int-night-2016-5-Large-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"SI CD Int night 2016 (5) (Large)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-CD-Int-night-2016-5-Large-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/SI-CD-Int-night-2016-5-Large.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos attached: 1: l to r: Alyson Green, President S I Midland Chase Region; Phil Shanahan; Carole Holdcroft, President, SI Cannock &amp; District<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carole Holdcroft, President of S I Cannock welcomed members and guests to the annual International&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SI Cannock&#039;s International Evening | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : SI Cannock&#039;s International Evening : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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