After being kept in a horse box at Lingfield Racecourse for a couple of weeks he boarded the Arandora Star destined for an internment camp in Canada.  The ship had been a luxury cruse liner prior to the war but had been painted grey, armed and lacking humanitarian markings such as a red cross to show that it was carrying prisoners of war.  It was targeted and sunk by a German U-Boat causing many of the men to perish in the icy waters.  Luckily my grandfather lived to tell the tail, but there is still a lot of sadness sounding the even and how it was portrayed by British propaganda past and present.  Families are angry not only to have lost relatives in this way, but also because they have not been remembered formally, the entire event seemingly being swept under the carpet.