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Ofuna Interrogation Centre
Life After Ofuna
It was not until 1950 when Basil was fit for work. In the mean time the War Crimes Trials sentenced the Commander of Ofuna to 25 years hard labour.
Basil was a radio HAM all his life and his first job Post War was fixing the police radar , he was living in Northern Ireland at the time.
He also kept a ships chandlers in Bangor, NI, went ocean racing in his yacht Bonnet Rouge and won the Alisa Craig twice. He loved sailing and the sea.
1953/10/28 - Married Hilda Patricia (Known as Pat) Thompson
Their three children were all born in Northern Ireland, Penny, Sue and James.
Basil had a farm down on the coast of Strangford Lough where he bred pedigree Hereford cattle and fattened lambs off the Mourne Mountains Once the troubles started the family moved to Co. Meath where he continued to farm and sail.
Basil had bad lungs as a result of the war, and subsequently moved to Guernsey where the climate was not so wet, but even then every winter he and Pat went to Florida, Key Largo, where they had a house, because of his lungs.
Basil was a great man for a party and loved entertaining and taught his daughter Penny a scandalous song, "It was on the good ship Venus, by God you should have seen us”.
Basil died aged 76
13th May 1996
At home in Guernsey
Buried St Pierre du Bois, Bailiwick of Guernsey
His Memory Lives On
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