Today is Merchant Navy Day, commemorating the 33,370 British and Commonwealth merchant seamen, who died in the World War Two.
Tony Watson is flying the ‘red duster', the red ensign flag of British maritime shipping at his Valley Road home today.
'A lot of people spent their working lives under the red ensign and a lot died under it,” says Tony.

Tony Dalton beneath the red ensign.

Merchant seamen started dying just nine hours after the opening of hostilities in 1939.
'The U-boats were waiting for start,” says Tony.
Nazi submarines were the main cause of merchant mariner deaths. They sank 2828 British ships and were responsible for two thirds of the losses in personnel.
Of several thousand New Zealand civilians serving on merchant shipping during the war, 130 died and 140 were taken prisoner.