Reliving the last days of Kenyan troops killed by Japanese submarine

The destroyer, HMS Paladin, which ran into a Japanese submarine to prevent it from diving.

Seventy three years ago today, an entire regiment of East African troops was almost completely wiped out when the ship taking them to war sank in the Indian Ocean.

The sinking of the troopship SS Khedive Ismail a week after sailing from Mombasa, with the loss of 1,297 lives, has been widely acclaimed as Britain’s third worst maritime disaster during World War II.