The British and the legacy of unrestricted submarine warfare

The A14 and A11 are dual carriageways now, designed to speed motorists across the Cambridgeshire fens.

Even if a motorist had time to take the local roads through villages such as Burwell and Fordham, the chances are that Swaffham Prior would not be seen, except as a sign as the car passed along on the B road that now bypasses the village to the south.

Swaffham Prior is a small, peaceful village in the Fens, distinguished only by two churches set within one churchyard, one of which — St Cyriac’s — possesses a remarkable set of three stained-glass windows which form the village’s war memorial.