British resident in Argentina. Shot by a German sailor who sent a volley of shots into the hold where British POWs were being held on the German ship M.V.Portland (http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?31484 (third ship onto which they were transferred). This was due to an ill advised mutiny led by a hot-headed Able Seaman named Fry who, in defiance of his senior officers – Royal Navy and Merchant Navy who were also POWs – attempted to set fire to the Portland with his ad hoc group and through their action set in motion a chain of events that led to the deaths of Frank Evans and Arthur Freeman. Frank’s wife Joan, also an interned passenger on the ship, was finally interned in a German POW camp in Liebenau after going through 10 prison camps. Her daughter Frances was born in this camp and became known as the “First British baby born in a German prison camp” Frances has written a book about her parents experiences, “Quiet Endurance” ISBN 978-987-1601-13-4 (francesbeng@gmail.com).Frank is buried in Bordeaux, France. Afric Star SS was a British Cargo/ Passenger Ship built in 1926 and of 7,438 tons. On the 29th January 1941 she was hit by gunfire from the Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser) M/V Kormoran in a position 08°N - 25°W, approximately (near Cape Verde Islands). She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires and Montevideo to England with a general cargo including butter and frozen meat.
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