and the troops who were serving abroad, but it was a dangerousjob. the merchant navy suffered one of the highest casualty rates. huw edwards tells the story of his grandfather who served with the atlantic convoys. huw: the story begins in the tiny seaside village of llanddewi aberarth on the coastline of ceredigion. this is where i‘d come to visit my grandparents and this is the little house where they lived. nothing much has changed in the main street. and you can see the house in the background to this family photo, which was taken after the war and my grandfather‘s return after four years away. he‘d gone to sea in the first instance at the age 01:14 in 1920. it was the natural thing to do for the boys in the village. but, as he told me many years later, never could he have imagined that that first voyage as a merchant seaman would lead, eventually, to three years in a german prisoner of war camp. newsreel: this is a story of the men who brave the dangers of the sea to bring