In 1937, Richard Edwards and his family traveled to France for language study, and then to French Equatorial Africa (now the Central African Republic) to serve as missionaries. In 1942, when Richard was thirteen years old, the ship carrying his family home to America for furlough was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Richard's parents and one sister, Georgia, died as a result of the sinking; and Richard, another sister Donna, and seventeen others drifted for twenty days on a life raft in the Caribbean Sea until their rescue
In 1937, Richard Edwards and his family traveled to France for language study, and then to French Equatorial Africa (now the Central African Republic) to serve as missionaries. In 1942, when Richard was thirteen years old, the ship carrying his family home to America for furlough was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Richard's parents and one sister, Georgia, died as a result of the sinking; and Richard, another sister Donna, and seventeen others drifted for twenty days on a life raft in the Caribbean Sea until their rescue
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