Families desperate to uncover the fates of Liverpool ‘heroes’ who ‘disappeared’

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Peter Foo can be found aboard the Mersey ferries once or twice a week. Since retiring, the 79-year-old makes the trip across the river and occasionally spends the day walking along the promenade at Seacombe. On a Monday afternoon crossing, while sitting in his usual seat tucked away in the corner on the lower deck, he looks out onto the Liverpool shoreline where he says his dad was forcibly deported in 1946. Peter’s dad, Foo Hong Swang, was one of around 2,000 seamen who were rounded up and removed from the UK following the second world war. They were part...