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Royal Naval Patrol Service Memorial

Below are set out the names on the RNPS Memorial at Lowestoft in Surname order. To view them in date of loss or name of vessel order, please click on the appropriate link.

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The surname records are split into three roughly equal sections to speed downloading.

The black text in the lists is taken from the original Commonwealth War Graves Commission Register, issued as a bound volume and retained by the RNPS Associaton office. Much of the blue text at the end of many records is as a result of further research and the source of the information is given in brackets.

Details have been checked and re-checked but there will doubtless still be some errors. If any are spotted please email.  If any error is of fact, please supply details of source of correction.

ABBOTTS

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman HAROLD

Trawler

LT/JX. 237414. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Jura. 7th January, 1943. Age 22. Son of WaIter E. and Violet R Abbotts of Birmingham; husband of Jessie Abbotts of Sparkbrook, Birmingham.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched November 1941, deployed to the Mediterranean 1942, sunk by U-371 in Western Med. (Toghill: Trawlers1;Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ABIGAIL

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand HERBERT GEORGE

Trawler

LT/X. 7366 C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Lord Stamp. 14th October, 1940. Age 34. Son of Herbert Robert and Edith Sarah Abigail; husband of Jane Abigail of Hartlepool, Co. Durham.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ACTON

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Cook PHILlP HENRY

Trawler

LT/JX. 186766. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Dorado. 1st June, 1940. Age 28. Son of Charlotte Acton of Wallasey Cheshire; husband of Edith May Acton of Wallasey.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk May/June, torpedoed by U-boat/E-boat (references vary: Toghill U-boat, others E-boat) off Dunkirk. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


ACTON

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Cook HORACE

Trawler

LT/JX. 180221. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Waveflower. 22nd October, 1940. Age 57. Son of William and Annie Acton; husband of Ethel Elizabeth Acton of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN and converted to minesweeper 1939, sunk by mine off Aldeburgh October 1940. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ADAMS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JAMES

Trawler

LT/5897 D. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Son of William and Mary Adams of Hastings Sussex; husband of Lily Ada Adams of Hastings, Sussex.

Notes or comments: Purchased in RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 7th A/S Group at Gibraltar, sunk in collision with French liner Cheila East of Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2)


ADAMS

Panel 6, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. LESLlE

Minelayer

LT/JX. 240290. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 28. Son of James William and Emma Adams of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


ADAMS

Panel 7, Column 3.

Lieut. JOHN STEPHEN

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 30. Son of Colonel John L. Adams and of Hermione Agnes Caroline Adams of Tenby, Pembrokeshire.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


ADAMS

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman GEORGE

Sloop

LT/JX. 251451. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Lapwing. 20th March, 1945. Son of George and Agnes Adams; husband of Helen Adams of Glasgow.

Notes or comments: Modified Black Swan class sloop, 1430 tons, torpedoed and sunk by U-968 in Kola inlet, north of Murmansk, 61 survivors and 158 men died. (Young: Ships of RN; U-boat net)


ADAMSON

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Cook RICHARD

Trawler

C/JX. 165031. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Charles Boyes. 25th May, 1940.

Notes or comments: Castle class, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to minesweeper, joined 40th M/S Group at Gt. Yarmouth, sunk by mine off East Coast. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


ADAMSON

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM

Minelayer

LT/JX. 185757. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Son of John and Elizabeth Adamson of West Wemyss Fife; husband of Janet Adamson of East Wemyss, Fife.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


ADDISON

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman DAVID JOHN

Trawler

LT/X. 20787A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Tilbury Ness. 1st November, 1940. Age 25. Son of John and Jessie Addison of Buckie, Banffshire.

Notes or comments: aka Tilburyness, requisitioned September 1939 as minesweeper, sink by air attack in Thames Estuary. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


AERSTALL

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman ROBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 364514. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Erith. 15th February, 1945. Age 20. Son of Eda Aerstall of Royton, Lancashire.


AGAR

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. JAMES ROBERT

Trawler

LT/X. 4048T. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler St. Achilleus. 1st June, 1940. Age 31. Son of Robert William and Pollie Agar of Whitby Yorkshire; husband of Edith A. Agar of Whitby.

Notes or comments: requisitioned in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Group at Grimsby and in 1940 the 11th A/S Group at Harwich, took part in Op. Dynamo and sunk by mine off Dunkirk. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


AINSWORTH

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman JAMES EDWARD

Trawler

LT/KX. 114222. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, based at Grimsby, sunk by air attack off Ramsgate (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


AIRLIE

Panel 8, Column 2.

Seaman JAMES

LT/JX. 280286. RN. H.M.S. Shapinsay. 29th December, 1942. Age 28. Son of James and Mary Ann Airlie of Dundee.


AITKEN

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman THOMS ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/JX. 656932. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 21. Son of Thomas and Margaret Aitken of Glasgow; husband of Mary W. Aitken of Glasgow.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned 1939 and converted to Minesweeper, based at Grimsby, with 17th M/S Group and from 1943 with 40 M/S Group, sunk by mine off Lizard (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


ALDRIDGE

Panel 8, Column 2.

Seaman DANIEL

Trawler

LT/JX. 227344. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


ALEXANDER

Panel 3, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. IVOR

Trawler

LT/JX. 179311. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 21. Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Alexander of Selston, Nottinghamshire.

Notes or comments: Tree class, purchased December 1939, commissioned March 1940 and joined 19th A/S Strike Force in Orkneys, in Norwegian campaign April/May, escorting tanker from Tromso when sighted squadron comprising Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper and four destroyers. Sailed to meet flying battle ensign and lasted incredible 90 minutes before before being sunk by Hipper gunfire, four survivors (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ALEXANDER

Panel 4, Column 3.

Skipper RICHARD HENRY

Drifter

RNR. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 8th May, 1941.

Notes or comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted for minesweeping duties, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by air attack off Lowestoft. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


ALEXANDER

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman EDWARD DODD

Trawler

LT/JX. 232278. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Moravia. 14th March, 1943. Age 25. Son of Samuel and Jane Alexander of New Cumnock, Ayrshire.


ALLAN

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ROBERT

Trawler

LT/IX. 224447. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 23. Son of Robert and Alexandrina Allan; husband of Isabella Allan of Lee, London.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


ALLAN

Panel 9, Column 3.

Ch. Engineman DAVID GOLDIE BOOTH

LT/KX. 97919. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Holly. 12th July, 1942. Age 28. Son of George and Jemima Ann Allan of Aberdeen; husband of Winifred Brand Allan of Aberdeen.


ALLAN

Panel 16, Column 1.

Cook SIDNEY SARGEANT

Trawler

LT/MX. 100451. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 27th July, 1944. Age 16. Son of Mrs. B. Allan of Gildersome, Yorkshire.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ALLAN

Panel 17, Column 1.

Ord. Sigmn. MAURICE SCOTT

Trawler

LT/JX. 672792. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler La Nantaise. 8th July, 1945. Age 19. Son of George and Margaret Sheila Allan of South Denton, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Notes or comments: ex St. Arcadius, purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, transferred to French Navy as Auxilliary Patrol Vessel and renamed La Nantaise, July 1940 seized at Portsmouth (and reverted to original name according to Toghill but CWGC and all others record as La Nantaise), lost in collison with SS Helencrest in English Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


ALLEN

Panel 6, Column 2.

Ch. Engineman ALBERT GEORGE

Trawler

LT/X. 292 EU. Mentioned in Despatches. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Asama. 21st March, 1941. Age 49. Son of George and Charlotte Honore Allen; husband of Sarah Elizabeth Allen of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939, converted for minesweeping and sunk by aircraft off Plymouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


ALLEN

Panel 4, Column 3.

Skipper WILLIAM THOMAS

Whaler

RNR. H.M.S. Sotra. 3rd August, 1941. Age 35. Son of WaIter and Caroline Jane Allen; husband of Jane Duncan Buchan Allen of Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939. No record of the incident of the loss of Skipper Allen but the vessel was eventually sunk 29th January 1942 (different sources record by aircraft and by U-431) off Bardia, Libya (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


ALLEN

Panel 9, Column 3.

Ch. Engineman GEORGE PATRICK

Trawler

LT/X. 363 ET. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942.

Notes or comments: Shakespearean class, ordered December 1939, launched October 1940, completed as A/S, 1941 joined 1st M/S-A/S Group at Freetown as convoy escort, torpedoed by U-201 off Freetown (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers1).


ALLEN

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman ANDREW LIDDLE

Trawler

LT/IX. 262794. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 36. Son of Henry C. and Isabella Allen of Blyth Northumberland; husband of Violet AlIen of Blyth, Northumberland.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


ALLNUTT

Panel 7, Column 3.

Seaman Steward ALFRED LEONARD

Trawler

LT/JX. 204996. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941.

Notes or comments: ex Melbourne, purchased into RN November 1935 (one of Gem Group) for anti-submarine duties, 1940 based at Portland, took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk, 1941 sunk in collision with battleship HMS Rodney off the Clyde. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


ALLWORK

Panel 8, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. GEORGE PATTON

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942. Age 25.

Notes or comments: requisitioned in September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1942 on loan to USN from February and sunk in collision with SS Hebe off Georgetown, South Carolina. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


ANDERSON

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand WILLIAM GEORGE

Trawler

C/X. 18706 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Son of John Anderson, and of Jane Anderson, of Macduff, Banffshire.

Notes or comments: Purchased in RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 7th A/S Group at Gibraltar, sunk in collision with French liner Cheila East of Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2)


ANDERSON

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman WILLIAM COWELL

Trawler

LT/X. 20432A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Grimsby Town. 18th March, 1940. Age 23. Son of W!lliam Cowell Anderson and Alice Anderson; husband of Florence Evelyn Anderson, of Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire.


ANDERSON

Panel 10, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. ROBERT LIVINGSTONE

Trawler

LT/KX. 136408. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 12th February, 1942. Son of David and Annie Anderson, of Woodside, Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


ANDERTON

Panel 8, Column 2.

Seaman ROBERT CONNELLY

Trawler

LT/X. 19731A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Waterfly. 17th September, 1942. Age 27. Son of William and Margaret Anderton, of Fleetwood, Lancashire; husband of Frances Anderton, of Fleetwood.

Notes or comments: ex Walpole, requisitioned September 1939 and converted for minesweeping, based at Kirkwall for sweeping in Scapa Flow, 1941 transferred to Dover and 46th M/S Group, sunk by air attack off Dungenness, English Channel. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ANDREW

Panel 9, Column 3.

Ch. Engineman THOMAS GEORGE

Trawler

LT/X. 5991ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Waterfly. 17th September, 1942. Age 30. Son of William Frederick and Mary Andrew; husband of Elizabeth Alice Andrew, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

Notes or comments: ex Walpole, requisitioned September 1939 and converted for minesweeping, based at Kirkwall for sweeping in Scapa Flow, 1941 transferred to Dover and 46th M/S Group, sunk by air attack off Dungenness, English Channel. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ANDREWS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JAMES WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 21565A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Comet. 30th September, 1940. Age 21. Son of Richard Henry and Eliza Andrews; husband of Emily May Andrews, of Hull.

Notes or comments: ex Tamura, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to Decoy vessel, sunk by mine aff Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


ANDREWS

Panel 5, Column 1.

Ldg. Sea. RICHARD CHARLES

Trawler

LT/lX. 18641A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Keryado. 6th March, 1941. Age 23. Son of Richard R and Sarah Andrews.

Notes or comments: French minesweeper seized in July 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


ANDREWS

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. FREDERICK WILLIAM

Drifter

LT/KX. 102649. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Jewel. 18th May, 1941. Age 23. Son of CharIotte Andrews, of Kingsdown, Deal, Kent.

Notes or comments: hired as minesweeper January 1940, sunk by mine in Belfast Lough (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ANDREWS

Panel 6, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. GEORGE

Minelayer

LT/JX.240148. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


ANDREWS

Panel 10, Column 3.

Lieut. NORMAN ROBERT

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 32. Son of Albert Edward and Nellie Maud Andrews; husband of Phoebe Andrews, of PurIey, Surrey.

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ANGEL

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman LUKE TURNER

Trawler

LT/KX. 105059. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940. Age 49. Son of Luke T. and Ellen Angel, of Grimsby, Lincoln­shire; husband of Minnie Angel, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ANNAL

Panel 8, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. FRANK

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Leyland. 25th November, 1942. Age 25. Son of Frank and Annie Annal; husband of Annie Annal, of Meanwood, Yorkshire, B.A.

Notes or comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties September, 1939, sunk in collision with merchantman off Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2).


ANNAND

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. JAMES CROMBIE

Trawler

LT/X. 10082 S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Alberic. 3rd May, 1941. Husband of Jemima Annand, of Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: 286 ton trawler Alberia requisitioned April 1940, renamed Alberic and coverted for minesweeping. Sunk in collision with destroyer HMS St. Albans off Scapa Flow (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


APPLEBY

Panel 7, Column 2.

Seaman Cook WILLIAM CAVENAR

Yacht

LT/JX. 242485. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Torrent. 6th April, 1941. Age 34. Husband of Jane Ann Knox Bigham Appleby, of Tynemouth, Northumberland.

Notes or comments: ex Anna Marie, hired September 1939 for anti-submarine duties and renamed Torrent, 1940 based at Portland, 1941 sunk by mine off Falmouth. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


APPLEBY

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. STANLEY

Whaler

LT/KX. 149192. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 28. Husband of Elsie Jane Appleby, of Stockport, Cheshire.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


ARMSTRONG

Panel 4, Column 3.

Sub-Lieut. (E) JOHN EDWARD

Yacht

RNVR. H.M. Yacht Torrent. 6th April, 1941. Age 43. Son of Richard and Norah Armstrong; husband of Frances Emily Armstrong, of Fareham, Hampshire.

Notes or comments: ex Anna Marie, hired September 1939 for anti-submarine duties and renamed Torrent, 1940 based at Portland, 1941 sunk by mine off Falmouth. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


ARNFIELD

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. NORMAN

Whaler

LT/JX., 299857. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 20. Son of Percy and Sarah Armfield, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: 251 ton whaler hired March 1940 for minesweeping duties, assigned to Russian Navy February 1942 and lost on passage (unknown cause) in Barents Sea (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ARROWSMITH

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. SAM

Trawler

LT/KX. 105734. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


ASHBY

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Steward FREDERICK WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 205439. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned June 1940 and coverted for anti-submarine duties, based at Portland, lost in Channel, probably mined (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ASHTON

Panel 1, Column 3.

Ldg. Sea. GEORGE WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 187351. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 26. Son of Horatio and Ethel Ashton, of Hull; husband of Irene Ashton, of Hull.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned June 1940 and coverted for anti-submarine duties, based at Portland, lost in Channel, probably mined (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ASHTON

Panel 4, Column 1.

Sto. 2nd Cl. RICHARD GEORGE

Trawler

LT/KX. 109439. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stamp. 14th October, 1940.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ASKEW

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. ROBERT ALFRED

Trawler

LT/KX. 131380. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


ASTLEY

Panel 8, Column 2.

Seaman WILLlAM HENRY

Trawler

LT/JX. 232037. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 22. Son of Arthur William and Nellie Astley, of Holloway, London.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


ATKINS

Panel 13, Column 1.

Ldg. Cook JAMES

Trawler

LT/MX. 94739. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Hailsham. 27th February, 1943. Age 29. Son of James and Selina Margaret Atkins; husband of Eileen Elizabeth Atkins, of Edmonton, Middlesex.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by E-boat while escorting convoy WP.300 in Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


ATKINSON

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman THOMAS

Trawler

LT/X. 7794 C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Myrtle. 14th June, 1940. Husband of J. Atkinson, of Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.

Notes or comments: ex St. Irene, purchased as minesweeper March 1939, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ATKINSON

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman GEORGE ERNEST

Trawler

LT/KX. 100345. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sea King. 9th October, 1940. Age 38. Husband of Gertrude C. Atkinson, of Hull.

Notes or comments: requisitioned for minesweeping duties in August 1939, joined 40th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by underwater explosion believed mine in Grimsby Roads (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


ATKINSON

Panel 13, Column 3.

Ldg. Sea. WALTER

Trawler

LT/JX 278431. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


AUDIS

Panel 15, Column 1.

Ord. Sigmn. RAYMOND GEORGE :ERNEST

Trawler

LT/JX. 405841. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pine. 31st January, 1944. Age 19. Son of George Robert and Lillian Adelaide Audis, ofKilburn, Middlesex.

Notes and Comments: Tree class, launched March 1940 and completed as minesweeper, sunk off Selsey Bill, English Channel, whilst under tow after bows blown off in E-boat torpedo attack (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


AUSTRIN

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN FUNNY KING

Trawler

LT/KX. 114152. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941. Age 52. Son of John Funny King Austrin and Alice Ann Austrin; husband of Ethel Austrin, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


AUSTWICK

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman CLARENCE HEATON

Trawler

LT/X. 5952 ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 40. Husband f Vera Austwick, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: Tree class, purchased December 1939, commissioned March 1940 and joined 19th A/S Strike Force in Orkneys, in Norwegian campaign April/May, escorting tanker from Tromso when sighted squadron comprising Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper and four destroyers. Sailed to meet flying battle ensign and lasted incredible 90 minutes before before being sunk by Hipper gunfire, four survivors (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


AYTON

Panel 15, Column 2.

Sto. HUGH STEWART

Trawler

LT/KX. 131759 RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Vidonia. 7th October, 1944. Age 42. Son of William and Jessie Ayton of Paisley, Renf wshire; hus­band of Margaret M. Ayton of Paisley.


BAATSTOE

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman AAGE CHARLES

Yacht

LT/KX. 116804. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Viva II. 8th May, 1941.

Notes or comments: hired September 1939 as an anti-submarine vessel, sunk by air attack off north coast of Cornwall. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BAILEY

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Steward ALAN CHARLES

Trawler

LT/JX. 174709. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tamarisk. 12th August, 1940. Age 21. Son of Albert John Henry and Hilda Elizabeth Bailey, of Southgate, Middlesex.

Notes and Comments: ex St. Gatien, purchased August 1939 as minesweeper, sunk by air attack Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; NO mention in Toghill?)


BAILEY

Panel 10, Column 3.

Lieut. WILLIAM HUGH

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 32. Son of Richard Henry and Jessie Charlton Bailey, of Lowther, Westmorland. M.A.(Oxon.).

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BAILEY

Panel 13, Column 3.

P.O. WILLIAM ALFRED

Whaler

LT/JX. 199121. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Maaloy. 27th March, 1944.

Notes or comments: Norwegian whaler, originally Globe VI, hired April 1941 as a minesweeper, renamed Maaloy, sunk by U-boat off Ceylon (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BAILEY

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. WALLACE JAMES

Barrage Balloon Vessel

LT/KX. 102137. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 33. Son of Charles and 'Annie Bailey, of Deal, Kent; husband of Elizabeth Rose Bailey, of Deal, Kent.

Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin)


BAILEY

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. MARTIN CLARENCE

Motor Launch

LT/KX. 153050. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1163. 4th January, 1945. Son of Leonard and Elsie May Bailey, of French, Wellington, Shropshire.

Notes or comments: completed December 1942, sunk by torpedo probably from surface craft, Mulat Island, NE Adriatic. (HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BAIRD

Panel 4, Column 1.

Sto. 2nd Cl. JOSEPH

Trawler

LT/KX. 110670. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pelton. 23rd December, 1940. Age 28. Son of Joseph and Christina Baird, of Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Notes and Comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, 1940 took part in telephone cable cutting operation between Germany and UK in North Sea, December torpedoed by E-boat off Great Yarmouth (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BAKER

Panel 7, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 225722. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cramond Island. 2nd April, 1941. Age 26. Son of James and Pricella Baker, of Placentia Bay, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: Native of Newfoundland


BAKER

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. RONALD CHARLES

Trawler

LT/JX. 231782. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). Hth April, 1942. Age 27. Son of Henry Searle Baker and Mary Ann Martha Baker, of West­minster, London; husband of Mary Baker (nee Reid).

Notes or comments: requisitioned in September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1942 on loan to USN from February and sunk in collision with SS Hebe off Georgetown, South Carolina. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BAKER

Panel 8, Column 1.

Skipper ARTHUR

Shore Establishment

RNR. H.M.S. Canada. 24th September, 1942.

Notes or comments: HMS Canada was RN. shore establishment at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, commissioned 1/8/1942. (Warlow: Shore Est. RN). Skipper Arthur Baker, Skipper Cyril Wilfred Dobson, Skipper Lieut. James Noble Hall, Skipper Lieut. Frederick Leonard Stather, Skipper Peter Thomson, Skipper Henry James Wink DSM, all shown as in HMS Canada, all lost on the same date. (CWGC)


BAKER

Panel 11, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. ALAN WILLIAM JOHN

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 19939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, converted for anti-submarine duties March 1941, sunk by broken free friendly mine north of Ireland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


BAKER

Panel 13, Column 3.

Sub-Lieut. DONALD ROBERT WILLIAM

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launches April 1943, torpedoed by E-boats whilst unbuttoning small convoy from the Bristol Channel to Plymouth, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BAKER

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 532392. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 34.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BAKER

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. JAMES

Motor Minesweeper

LT/KX. 160881. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 229. 13th June, 1944. Age 20. Son of W. and Janet Baker, of Greenmount, Lancashire.


BAKER

Panel 13, Column 3.

P.O. ARTHUR ALBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 222756. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 36. Son of William John and Mary Jane Baker; husband of Ena Victoria Baker, of Chingford, Essex.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BAKER

Panel 16, Column 2.

Skipper GEORGE ALFRED EDGAR

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler La Nantaise. 8th July, 1945. Age 43. Son of John James Baker and Elizabeth Baker; husband of Annie Eleonor Baker, of Winterton, Norfolk.

Notes or comments: ex St. Arcadius, purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, transferred to French Navy as Auxilliary Patrol Vessel and renamed La Nantaise, July 1940 seized at Portsmouth (and reverted to original name according to Toghill but CWGC and all others record as La Nantaise), lost in collison with SS Helencrest in English Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BALDOCK

Panel 15, Column 2.

Engineman RICHARD' SAMUEL

Trawler

LT/KX. 105034. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 43. Son of Harry and Emily Baldock, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Jessie May Baldock, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: ex Belgian trawler converted in French minesweeper, seized at Southampton July 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted back to minesweeper and based on Humber, 1943 19th M/S Group at Grimsby, torpedoed by E-boat off the Humber (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BALFOUR

Panel 13, Column 2.

Lieut. WILLIAM

Motor Minesweeper

RNVR. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 1019. 2nd July, 1944. Age 32. Son of James Murdoch McDonald Balfour and Isabella Murray Balfour, husband of Doris Irene Balfour, of Holyhead, Anglesey.


BALL

Panel 1, Column 3.

Ldg. Sea. VICTOR JOHN

Trawler

LT/6078 D. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Pelton. 23rd December, 1940. Age 36. Son of Samuel and Florence M. Ball; husband of HiIda Ivy Ball, of Bedworth, Warwickshire.

Notes and Comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, 1940 took part in telephone cable cutting operation between Germany and UK in North Sea, December torpedoed by E-boat off Great Yarmouth (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BALL

Panel 6, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. AUSTIN

Minelayer

LT/JX. 240372. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 20. Son of William and Jane Ball, of Hesketh Bank, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


BALL

Panel 4, Column 3.

Skipper GEORGE FREDERICK

Drifter

RNR. H.M. Drifter Boy Andrew. 9th November, 1941.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned as auxilliary patrol vessel 1940, sunk in collision in Firth of Forth (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BALL

Panel 13, Column 2.

Lieut. FRANK LEWIS

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BALL

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN EDWARD HARRY

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 263181. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 8. 24th June, 1944.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BALLS

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ALFRED ARTHUR GEORGE

Drifter

LT/JX. 206451. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Bahram. 3rd April, 1941. Age 26. Son of George and Agnes Balls; husband of Ruth Balls, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: Hired as harbour defence patrol craft 1940, sunk by mine off the Humber (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BALLS

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ALBERT EDWARD

LT/JX. 215631. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Ouzel. 3rd November, 1941. Age 25. Son of AIbert Edward and Sarah Ann Balls, of King's Lyon, Norfolk; husband of Margaret Ellen Balls, of King's Lynn.


BALLS

Panel 10, Column 2.

Ldg. Steward HEADLEY OWEN

Whaler

LT/LX. 27620. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. Age 21. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Balls, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: ex Kos XIX, a Norwegian whaler, hired for anti-submarine duties as Cocker September 1941, torpedoed and sunk by E-boat off Tobruk, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; updated by Norfleet.net)


BALLS

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ALBERT

Trawler

LT/KX. 156481. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 20. Son of Herbert and Ethe! Balls, of Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BAMPTON

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman CLlFFORD JOSEPH

Trawler

LT/JX. 192255. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Remillo. 27th February, 1941. Age 25. Son of J oseph and Constance E. Bampton, of Wallasey, Cheshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired April 1940 as dan layer, converted September 1940 to auxilliary patrol vessel based at Grimsby, sunk by mine off Humber (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BANKS

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman RICHARD

Trawler

LT/JX. 193056. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941. Age 21. Son of Richard and Elizabeth Emma Banks, of Femdale, Glamor­gan.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned May 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, Janury 1941 converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 31st A/S Group at Gibraltar, sank U-111 off Teneriffe October, torpedoed U-374 off Gibraltar (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BARBER

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman STANLEY CECIL

Motor Launch

LT/X. 20851 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.M.L. 1226. 7th March, 1944. Age 30. Son of George and Kate Julia Barber, of North Shields, Northumberland; husband of Ina Barber.


BARBER

Panel 14, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. ALAN FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/JX. 532273. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 19. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John William Barber, of Conisbrough, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BARBER

Panel 13, Column 3.

Skipper CECIL LEONARD

Landing Craft: Tank

RNR. H.M. LCT. 377. 4th October, 1944. Age 36. Son of Arthur and Anna Barber, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Rita Mary Victoria Barber, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: 350/640 tons, length 190, beam 31, carrying 5x 40t or 11x 30t tanks, (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BARCOCK

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman ERNEST

Drifter

LT/JX. 302124. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ocean Retriever. 22nd September, 1943. Age 20. Son of Ernest and Rachael Barcock, of Bentley, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned April 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BARDON

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. GEORGE

LT/KX. 121580. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Philoctetes. 31st August, 1943. Age 23. Son of Joseph Wood Bardon and Alice Bardon,of Oulston, Yorkshire.


BARGEWELL

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/KX. 106123. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 28.

Notes or comments: Tree class, purchased December 1939, commissioned March 1940 and joined 19th A/S Strike Force in Orkneys, in Norwegian campaign April/May, escorting tanker from Tromso when sighted squadron comprising Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper and four destroyers. Sailed to meet flying battle ensign and lasted incredible 90 minutes before before being sunk by Hipper gunfire, four survivors (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BARKER

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/X. 21531. A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 19. Son of Skipper Lieut. Albert Barker, RN.R and of Annie E. Barker, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned June 1940 and coverted for anti-submarine duties, based at Portland, lost in Channel, probably mined (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BARKER

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman GEORGE EDW ARD WILLIAM

LT/JX. 202277. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Mull. 26th March, 1943. Age 29. Son of George Edward and Gladys Violet Barker, of Costessey, Norfolk.


BARKER

Panel 13,Column 1.

Cook WILFRED GEORGE

Trawler

LT/MX. 83167. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 34. Son of Horace and Florence Barker,of Great Yarmouth,Norfolk.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BARKER

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman HERBERT

Whaler

LT/JX. 374080. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BARLOW

Panel 8, Column 2.

Seaman EDWARD

LT/JX. 286019. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cromer. 9th November, 1942. Age 18. Son of James Edward and Josephine Barlow,of Audenshaw, Lancashire.


BARNARD

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JAMES EDWARD

Trawler

LT/JX. 170736. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kellymore. 25th November, 1940. Age 29. Son of Charles Edward Turner Barnard. and Lottie Maud Barnard, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.


BARNES

Panel 9,Column 3.

Engineman FREDERICK WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/KX. 110465. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy).11th May, 1942. Age 31. Son of John and Louisa Bames; husband of Susan Barnes, of Brynmawr, Brecknockshire.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy). Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BARNETT

Panel 16,Column 3.

Seaman EDWARD THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 437231. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Son of Henry Emest William and EmiIy Mary Bamett; husband of Joan Audrey Bamett, of Portslade, Sussex.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BARNSTON

Panel 11,Column 2.

Seaman STEPHEN GORDON JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 259845. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 30. Son of John and Ruth Bamston; husband of AIice MatiIda Bamston, of Dereham, Norfolk.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BARRETT

Panel 6,Column 1.

Ord. Sea. REGlNALD GEORGE

Shore Establishment

LT/JX. 256669. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Europa. 19th August, 1941. Age 29.

Notes and Comments: Europa was headquarters and central depot of RNPS at Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft.


BARRETT

Panel 6,Column 2. 

Engineman GEORGE CLIFFORD

Trawler

LT/X. 6114ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Flotta. 6th November, 1941. Age 33. Son of George CIifford Barrett and Annie Mary Barrett, of Hull; husband of Annie Louisa Rusby Barrett, of Hull.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, foundered after grounding off Buchan Ness (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BARRETT

Panel 6,Column 2.

Ord. Sigmn. PATRICK JAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 273837. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941. Age 20. Son of James Louis and Daisy Maria Barret, of Wood Green,Middlesex.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned May 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, Janury 1941 converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 31st A/S Group at Gibraltar, sank U-111 off Teneriffe October, torpedoed U-374 off Gibraltar (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BARRETT

Panel 13, Column 2.

Lieut. JACK HARDY

Motor Minesweeper

R.N.V.R H.M. Motor Minesweeper 8. 24th June, 1944. Son of Jack and Josephine Barrett; husband of Anita Hardy Barrett.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BARRETT

Panel 16,Column 2.

Lieut.-Comdr. ROY, DSC

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 33. Son of Quiller and Beatrice Barrett; husband of Mary Noreen Barrett.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned 1939 and converted to Minesweeper, based at Grimsby, with 17th M/S Group and from 1943 with 40 M/S Group, sunk by mine off Lizard (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BARRY

Panel 8,Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 231620. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 22. Son of William and Catherine Barry, of Dewsbury, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BARTH

Panel 6,Column 2.

Engineman RAGNAR ALSTRUP

Trawler

LT/KX. 124558. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 27. Son of Ove Ludvig Barth and Gulette Dorthea, of Fredrikstad, Norway.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45). Native of Norway


BARTLETT

Panel 7,Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. ROBERT WILLlAM

Trawler

LT/SR 55719. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gullfoss. 9th March, 1941.

Notes and Comments: Purchased as minesweeper August 1939, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BARTLETT

Panel 6,Column 1.

Ord. Sea. JAMES

Shore Establishment

LT/IX. 232445. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Europa. 22nd July, 1941.

Notes and Comments: Europa was headquarters and central depot of RNPS at Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft. May be the victim of air raid Lorne/Lorne Park Road, Lowestoft on this date (Jenkins: Port War)


BASS

Panel 17, Column 3.

Steward FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/LX. 571979. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hayburn Wyke. 2nd January, 1945. Age 20. Son of Frederick and Harriett Ann Bass, of Wandsworth, London.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, converted to minesweeper 1941, sunk by torpedo whilst at anchor off Ostend (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BASSETT

Panel 16, Column 3.

Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX..202145. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 32. Son of William and Norah Bassett; husband of Anita Bassett, of Camborne, Cornwall.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned 1939 and converted to Minesweeper, based at Grimsby, with 17th M/S Group and from 1943 with 40 M/S Group, sunk by mine off Lizard (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BATCHELOR

Panel 8, Column 2.

Seaman ROBERT LEONARD

Trawler

LT/JX. 278199. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Leyland. 26th November, 1942. Age 35. Son of Charles and Alice Elizabeth Batchelor, of Wellington, Shropshire.

Notes or comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties September, 1939, sunk in collision with merchantman off Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2). Date as CWGC. Most records show loss 25/11/42.


BATEMAN

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. THOMAS EDWARD

Drifter

LT/KX. 124850. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th May, 1941. Age 34.

Notes or comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted for minesweeping duties, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by air attack off Lowestoft. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BATER

Panel 15, Column 2.

Engineman REGINALD FRANCIS LAWRENCE

Motor Minesweeper

LT/KX. 108121. Mentioned in Despatches. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. Age 29. Son of Alfred King Bater and Lilian Marian Victoria Bater; husband of Rena Harriett Bater, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.

Notes and Comments: built by R. Irvin, Peterhead, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BATES

Panel 17, Column 1.

Telegraphist CHARLES HENRY

Whaler

LT/JX. 271330. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 33. Son of Henry and Kate Louisa Bates; husband of Annie Elizabeth Bates, of Northampton.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BATLEY

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman JOHN FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/JX. 183222. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941. Age 23. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Batley; husband of Marjorie Daisy Batley of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BAUMANN

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman HENRY ALBERT

Drifter

LT/JX. 200701. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Bahram. 3rd April, 1941. Age 32. Son of Henry and Ethel Annie Baumann.

Notes or comments: Hired as harbour defence patrol craft 1940, sunk by mine off the Humber (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BAWDEN

Panel 3, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. ARTHUR JELLlCOE

Trawler

LT/JX. 202121. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned June 1940 and coverted for anti-submarine duties, based at Portland, lost in Channel, probably mined (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BAXANDALE

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. EDWARD

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/KX. 157627. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 21.


BAXTER

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman WILFRED HENRY

Trawler

LT/JX. 317327. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 24. Son of Wilfred and Amy Baxter, of Bramley, Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Doris Baxter of Bramley, Leeds.

Notes or comments: ex Belgian trawler converted in French minesweeper, seized at Southampton July 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted back to minesweeper and based on Humber, 1943 19th M/S Group at Grimsby, torpedoed by E-boat off the Humber (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BAXTER

Panel 13, Column 3.

Skipper JOHN

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 32. Son of John and Isabella Baxter, of Ferryden, Angus; husband of Helen. Baxter, of Ferryden.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BAXTER

Panel 17, Column 2.

Ord. Tel. ERNEST CLAUDE

Trawler

LT/JX. 236253. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 30. Son of Joseph and Evelyn Baxter; husband of Lilian Doreen Baxter, of The Hyde, Hendon, Middlesex.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BAYES

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. JACK

Trawler

LT/KX. 104783. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Thomas Bartlett. 27th May, 1940. Age 23. Son of Richard and Annie Bayes, of Hull; husband of Frances Mary Bayes, of Hull.

Notes and Comments: Castle class, requisitioned in November 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk by 'friendly' British mine off Calais. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BAYNES

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. ANTHONY ERNEST

Trawler

LT/JX. 301447. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BEAN

Panel 5, Column 1.

Second Hand LEONARD HERBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 215858. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cobbers. 3rd March, 1941. Age 30. Son of John James Bean and Agnes Bean; husband of Olwen Maud Bean, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.


BEARD

Panel 4, Column 3.

Sub-Lieut. PETER GASCOYN

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Age 25. Son of the Revd. Hugh Spencer Gascoyen Beard, M.A., and of Winifred Amy Beard. M.A. (Cantab.).,

Notes or comments: 627 ton trawler purchased November 1935 (ex Mavis Rose) and converted for anti-submarine duties. 6th August 1941 escorting convoy FS69, off course, grounded and wrecked on Haisborough (Happisburgh) Sands off Cromer. (Lenton/Colledge; Toghill; Foynes)


BEATTIE

Panel 13, Column 2.

Lieut. RICHARD

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 26. Son of Robert and Florence Beattie; husband of Rhoda Beattie, of Gateshead, Co. Durham.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BEESLEY

Panel 9, Column 3.

Engineman TIMOTHY STIMPSON

Trawler

LT/KX. 106913. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 42. Son of Thomas and Lily Unice Beesley; husband of Maud May Beesley, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat tropedo in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BELCHER

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman THOMAS CHARLES WILLIAM

Drifter

LT/IX. 166982. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ocean Sunlight. 13th June, 1940. Age 26. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Belcher, of Fleetwood, Lancashire; husband of Lilian Belcher, of Fleetwood.

Notes or comments: Hired for minesweeping duties November 1939, sunk by mine off Newhaven (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BELCHER

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman CHARLES ERNEST

LT/JX. 321044. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Loch Hope. 16th May, 1944. Age 22. Son of Alfred Ernest and Nellie May Belcher, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.


BELL

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman JOHN FOX

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/IX. 174407. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Age 52. Husband of Elsie J. S. Bell, of Broughty Ferry, Dundee.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


BENEDETTO

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman RINALDO

Trawler

LT/KX. 113537. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 25. Son of Alberto Benedetto and Maria Holboe.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BENNETT

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand BENJAMIN VICTOR

Drifter

LT/JX. 209192. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Reed. 7th November, 1940. Age 48. Husband of Lilian Clara Bennett, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned September 1939 as minesweeper, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BENNETT

Panel 10, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. STANLEY

Trawler

LT/JX. 280397. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 23. Son of Amedie and Mary Bennett; husband of Margaret Bennett, of Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy), Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2). Native of Newfoundland


BENNETT

Panel 13, Column 2.

Seaman JOHN GERARD

Trawler

LT/JX. 185964. RN. Parol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 24. Son of Patrick and Diana Bennett, of Buchans, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net) Native of Newfoundland


BENNETT

Panel 12, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. ROBERT ELDER

Trawler

LT/JX. 375025. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 19. Son of Colin Elder Bennett and J ane Bennett, of Selkirk.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


BENNETT

Panel 15, Column 2.

Engineman GEORGE UDEN

Trawler

LT/KX. 102492. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 30. Son of George and Lottie Bennett, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launches April 1943, torpedoed by E-boats whilst unbuttoning small convoy from the Bristol Channel to Plymouth, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BENNETT

Panel 15, Column 1.

Ord. Tel. WILLIAM RONALD

Trawler

LT/JX. 405153. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 19. Son of William Robert and Marian Bennett, of Appeldore, Devon.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BENNETT

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman WILLIAM THOMAS HENRY

Trawler

LT/JX. 214176. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BERG

Addenda Panel.

Leading Steward PAUL EUGEN

LT/LX 29245. RN Patrol Service. 5th November, 1946. Age 53. Son of Adolf and Pauline Berg, of Tonsberg, Norway; husband of Johanore Berg, of Teire Per, Tonsberg.

Notes or comments: CWGC - no details of attachment to vessel or unit. Native of Norway.


BERRY

Panel 6, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. ALEXANDER

Minelayer

LT/JX. 240169. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 19. Son of Alexander and Maggie Wilson Berry, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


BESSEY

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand EDWARD ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/JX. 210627. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tilbury Ness. 1st November, 1940. Age 35. Son of Robert George and Florence Esther Bessey, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: aka Tilburyness, requisitioned September 1939 as minesweeper, sink by air attack in Thames Estuary. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


BETTS

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman FREDERICK WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 222682. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 21. Son of William Samuel Thomas Beus and Clara Eliza Beus, of Hastings, Sussex.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launches April 1943, torpedoed by E-boats whilst unbuttoning small convoy from the Bristol Channel to Plymouth, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BETTS

Panel 16, Column 3.

Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM FRANK

Trawler

LT/JX. 205304. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler La Nantaise. 8th July, 1945. Age 30. Son of Charles J ames William and Annie Elizabeth Beus; husband of Esther Eirwen Bens, of Bangor, Caernarvonshire.

Notes or comments: ex St. Arcadius, purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, transferred to French Navy as Auxilliary Patrol Vessel and renamed La Nantaise, July 1940 seized at Portsmouth (and reverted to original name according to Toghill but CWGC and all others record as La Nantaise), lost in collison with SS Helencrest in English Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BICKFORD

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman LEONARD PRESTON

Trawler

LT/JX. 206382. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 29. Son of Thomas G. and Sophie Bickford; husband of Edith Ellen Bickford, of Brixton, London.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


BIELBY

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. MATTHEW

Trawler

LT/KX. 160870. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Son of Tom and Julia Bielby; husband of Mary Priscilla Bielby, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BILLINGS

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman ARTHUR PRIOR

Trawler

LT/KX. 110030. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BINGHAM

Panel 13, Column 3.

Midn. AUSTEN

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Son of William Hopworth Bingham and Constance Preston Bingham, of Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa.

Notes or comments: Isles class, Ordered March 1943, launched December, completed March 1944 as A/S, took part in Op. Neptune, as Dan layer to 1st M/S Flotilla at Sword, sunk by Human torpedo off Ostend. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BIRD

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman JAMES

Shore Establishment

LT/JX. 281423. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. President III. 11th November, 1943. Age 28. Son of Margaret Bird, of Hoylake, Cheshire.

Notes or comments: HMS President III was the shore establishment based at Bristol which was nominally the posting for all Naval personnel serving in Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (Warlow: Shore Est. RN)


BISHOP

Panel 7, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. THOMAS FRANCIS

Trawler

LT/JX. 211412. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 19. Son of Thomas Bishop, and of Anasthia Bishop, of Placentia, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45). Native of Norway


BLACK

Panel 9, Column 3.

Engineman HENRY HARRY

Trawler

LT/KX. 101858. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stonehaven. 2nd October, 1942.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Eddystone (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BLACK

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman CHARLES LESLIE

Trawler

LT/SR 50900. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 24. Son of Gavin Thomas Black and Robina Black, of Virkie, Lerwick, Zetland.

Notes or comments: Hills class, launched November 1941 and completed as escort, joined 2nd A/S Group based at Freetown, torpedoed and sunk while escorting Gibraltar convoy by U-521 off Canary Isles, North Atlantic (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


BLACK

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. ROBERT

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 163357. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 68. 4th February, 1945. Age 20. Son of James Layboume Pickersgill Black and Gladys Gertrude Black, of Haltwhistle, Northumberland.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BLACKBURN

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. GEORGE TURNER

Trawler

LT/X. 1O11OS. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 27. Son of Joseph and Lavinia Blackbum, of Maryport, Cumberland; husband of Elizabeth Blackbum, of Maryport.

Notes or comments: Purchased in RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 7th A/S Group at Gibraltar, sunk in collision with French liner Cheila East of Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BLACKBURN

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman ROLAND HARRY

Trawler

LT/KX. 111434. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Silicia. 8th May, 1941.

Notes or comments: date for others lost in same incident recorded as 9/5/41 by CWGC; requisitioned in August 1939 and converted for minesweeping, joined 72nd M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by mine off Humber. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BLACKMORE

Panel 10, Column 2.

Cook RICHARD JOHN

Whaler

LT/MX. 85405. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 30. Husband of Ethel Rosina Beatrice Blackmore, of Coxside, Plymouth.

Notes or comments: recorded by CWGC as a trawler, recorded by Colledge as ex Norwegian whaler Kos XXIX, purchased August 1939 for anti-submarine duties, sunk by torpedo from E-boat off Plymouth in English Channel. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; warsailors.com)


BLACKMORE

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman ARTHUR ERNEST

Trawler

LT/JX. 383532. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 21. Son of Charles George and Mabel Blackmore, of Enfield, Middlesex.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BLACKWELL

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman HENRY ROBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 263493. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 30. Son of Ernest and Ada Ellen Blackwell, of Goole, Yorkshire.

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BLADE

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. SAMUEL

Trawler

LT/KX. 106896. RN. Patiol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941. Husband of Ellen Blade, of Dingle, Liverpool.

Notes or comments: ex Melbourne, purchased into RN November 1935 (one of Gem Group) for anti-submarine duties, 1940 based at Portland, took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk, 1941 sunk in collision with battleship HMS Rodney off the Clyde. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


BLADE

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman LESLIE ROBERT

LT/JX. 241762. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Ouzel. 3rd November, 1941. Age 31.


BLADES

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman ARTHUR ROBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 179314. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Son of William J. H. and Ada Blades, of Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Notes or comments: Hills class, launched November 1941 and completed as escort, joined 2nd A/S Group based at Freetown, torpedoed and sunk while escorting Gibraltar convoy by U-521 off Canary Isles, North Atlantic (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


BLAGDON

Panel 10, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. HUBERT

Whaler

LT/JX. 315743. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 18. Son of Albert John and Myrtle Blagdon, of Boxey, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland:

Notes or comments: 251 ton whaler hired March 1940 for minesweeping duties, assigned to Russian Navy February 1942 and lost on passage (unknown cause) in Barents Sea (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BLAIR

Panel 13, Column 2.

Steward HENRY

Whaler

LT/LX. 26882. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Santa. 23rd November, 1943. Age 29. Son of Alexander Rigg Blair and Elizabeth Blair, of Glasgow.

Notes or comments: 355 ton Whaler requisitioned for minesweeping duties in October 1941 and lost to a mine west of Maddalena, Sardinia (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BLAKEMAN

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman DENNIS FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/JX. 515287. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 19. Son of Harry Robert and Edith Anne Blakeman, of Watford, Hertfordshire.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BLANCHARD

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. ARTHUR JOHN

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/JX. 257634. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Age 22. Son of John Blanchard and of Alice Blanchard (nee Le Page), of Guernsey, Channel Islands; husband of Jane Blanchard (nee Le Moigne), of Guernsey.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


BLANDFORD

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. JAMES CRAWFORD

Trawler

LT/KX. 99044. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tilbury Ness. 1st November, 1940. Age 21. Son of Alexander and Helen Blandford, of Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: aka Tilburyness, requisitioned September 1939 as minesweeper, sink by air attack in Thames Estuary. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


BLOCKWELL

Panel 11, Column 1.

Skipper Lieut. FREDERICK I GEORGE

Trawler

. RN.R H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943.. Age 31. Son of William and Rhoda Blockwell; husband of Evelyn Blockwell, of Gorleston, Norfolk.

Notes and Comments: ex Rylston, requisitioned October 1939 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted to minesweeper, 1943 sunk by Italian Submarine Acciaio off Algiers (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BLOMFIELD

Panel 4, Column 3.

Captain MYLES ALDINGTON, OBE

Yacht

RN. H.M. Yacht Viva II. 8th May, 1941. Age 56. Son of Major-General Charles James Blomfield, C.B., D.S.O., and Henriette Elizabeth Blomfield; husband of Harriett Blomfield, of Chelsea, London.

Notes or comments: hired September 1939 as an anti-submarine vessel, sunk by air attack off north coast of Cornwall. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BLOXHAM

Panel 4, Column 3.

Midn. JOHN FREDERICK

RNR. H.M.S. Skudd Ill. 27th August, 1941. Age 19. Son of Frederick and Miriam K. M. Bloxham, of Hinckley, Leicestershire.


BLUNT

Panel 13, Column 1.

Asst. Cook JAMES

Trawler

LT/MX. 533769. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 19. Son of Henry and Edith Blunt, of Newton Heath, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 19939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, converted for anti-submarine duties March 1941, sunk by broken free friendly mine north of Ireland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


BLYTH

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman JAMES FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/X. 1O313S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 34. Son of James and Rose Blyth, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Emma Blyth, of Lowestoft.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 19939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, converted for anti-submarine duties March 1941, sunk by broken free friendly mine north of Ireland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


BOARDLEY

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman FRANCIS FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/X. 1O428B. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BOBY

Panel 16, Column 2.

Lieut. RONALD LEONARD CHARLES

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 27. Son of Arthur Leonard and Amelia Boby, of Fetcham, Surrey.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BOGGISS

Panel 13, Column 2.

Ldg. Steward ]OHN FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/LX. 30104. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 27. Son of John Thomas Boggiss and Naomi Ethel Boggiss; husband of Violet Lydia Boggiss, of Chingford, Essex.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 19939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, converted for anti-submarine duties March 1941, sunk by broken free friendly mine north of Ireland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


BOLAND

Panel 10, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. ALEXANDER

Whaler

LT/JX. 277265. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. Foster-son of Joseph and Clara Crocker, of Lamaline, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: ex Kos XIX, a Norwegian whaler, hired for anti-submarine duties as Cocker September 1941, torpedoed and sunk by E-boat off Tobruk, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; updated by Norfleet.net)


BOLTON

Panel 13, Column 3.

Sub-Lieut. GEOFFREY CHARLES

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 23. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bolton, of Salisbury; husband of Alison M. Bolton (nee Pond), of Burcombe, Salisbury.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launches April 1943, torpedoed by E-boats whilst unbuttoning small convoy from the Bristol Channel to Plymouth, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BOND

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Steward HAROLD THTJR

Trawler

LT/JX. 197375. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940. Age 26. Son of Arthur and Dorothy Bond; husband of Ellen Julia Bond, of Streatham, London.

Notes or comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, based at Dover, U-boat to credit (U-16) 23rd October, torpedoed by E-boat off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BOND

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman SIDNEY GEORGE

Drifter

LT/KX. 101278. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th May, 1941. Age 33. Son of Alfred Charles and Charlotte Bond, of Carlton Colville, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted for minesweeping duties, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by air attack off Lowestoft. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BOND

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman ]OHN GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 547404. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 20. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bond, of Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned 1939 and converted to Minesweeper, based at Grimsby, with 17th M/S Group and from 1943 with 40 M/S Group, sunk by mine off Lizard (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BONNETT

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ARNOLD TOM

LT/KX. 106698. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cormorant. 31st January, 1944. Son of Tom and Lily Bonnett, of Rotherham, Yorkshire.


BOOTH

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. ELDRED

Trawler

LT/KX. 131285. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. Age 34. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Booth, of Preston, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: French minesweeper seized at Southampton in July 1940, taken into RN as minesweeper, sunk by U-203 in Atlantic. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BORMAN

Panel 6, Column 3.

Engineman ARTHUR ROBERT

Shore Establishment

LT/KX. 106872. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Europa. 19th August, 1941. Age 25. Son of Arthur Robert and EIiza Ann Borman, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Vera Borman, of Grimsby.

Notes and Comments: Europa was headquarters and central depot of RNPS at Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft.


BOTT

Panel 12, Column 2.

Telegraphist HENRY PETER

Trawler

LT/LD/X. 5554. RN.V.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 24. Son of I Herbert Edward Bott, and of Rose Alvine Bott, of South Croydon, Surrey.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


BOWEN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman ERNEST GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 190813. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 22. Son of Ernest William and Lilian May Bowen, of Landore, Glamorgan.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


BOWLES

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. ALBERT JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX., 317336. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 19. Son of Leslie I Albert and Maud Isabella Bowles, of Bermondsey, London.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat tropedo in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BOWMAN

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. JOHN DUNCAN

Trawler

LT/KX. 107487. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sisapon. 12th June, 1940.

Requisitioned September 1939 for mine-sweeping duties, based at Grimsby (ungrouped), sunk by mine off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BOWNESS

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. RICHARD DAWSON

Drifter

LT/KX. 100322. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Reed. 7th November, 1940. Age 26. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bowness, of Maryport, Cumberland.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned September 1939 as minesweeper, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BOWRING

Panel 12, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. WALTER FRANK

Trawler

LT/JX. 383523. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Jacinth. 12th January, 1943. Age 18. Son of Lionel Ewart Bowring and Winifred Agnes Bowring, of Romsey, Hampshire.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, 1940 converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine off Portsmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BOYCE

Panel 8, Column 3. 

Seaman GEORGE STANLEY RANSOME

Trawler

LT/JX. 286357. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Chalcedony. 13th August, 1942. Age 36. Son of George WilIiam and Rosina Boyce; husband of Winifred Charlotte Boyce, of Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned August 1939 (357 tons, 1x 12 pdr) as Auxilliary Patrol Vessel, 1941 converted for minesweeping and attached 19th M/S at Grmsby, sold 1945, renamed Laforey 1946. (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BOYD

Panel 11, Column 1.

Lieut. WILLIAM HUNTER

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Franc Tireur. 25th September, 1943. Age 41. Son of David McVail Boyd and Mary Spiers Boyd, of Glasgow; husband of Christina Mary Boyd, of Glasgow.

Notes and Comments: hired for auxilliary patrol May 1940, converted for minwsweeping 1941, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Harwich (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BOYLAN

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman JAMES

Trawler

LT/X. 5923 ES. RNR. (patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Stella Sirius. 25th September, 1940. Age 36. Son of George and Mary Boylan, of Aberdeen; husband of Mary Boylan, of Torry, Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 1939 and coverted for anti-submarine duties, sunk in attack on Gibraltar by Vichy French (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BOYNTON

Panel 3, Column 2.

Ch. Engineman ALFRED

Drifter

LT/KX. 100330. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Reed. 7th November, 1940.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned September 1939 as minesweeper, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRADBURY

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JOSEPH BADEN

Trawler

LT/JX. 174604. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pelton. 23rd December, 1940.

Notes and Comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, 1940 took part in telephone cable cutting operation between Germany and UK in North Sea, December torpedoed by E-boat off Great Yarmouth (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BRADBURY

Panel 7, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 107433. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Age 23. Son of Mary Ann Bradbury, of Miles Planing, Manchester.

Notes or comments: Tree class admiralty trawler, taken into service May 1940 as minesweeper, sunk by mine off Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BRADSHAW

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 167000. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Erin. 18th January, 1942. Age 19. Son of John and Charlotte D. Bradshaw, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.


BRAID

Panel 9, Column. 2.

Ord. Sea. WILLIAM HENRY

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/JX. 257937. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Son of Harold and Nellie Braid; husband of Marie Braid, of New Brighton, Cheshire.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


BRAILSFORD

Panel 13, Column 1. 

Ldg. Cook HAROLD BELLAMY

Trawler

LT/MX. 85792. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 41. Son of John Bellamy Brailsford and Lizzie Brailsford; husband of E. Irene Brailsford, of Bridport, Dorsetshire.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRAINCH

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. NORMAN RONALD

Trawler

LT/KX. 148468. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. . Age 20. Son of Henry and Edith Alice Brainch, of Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRAITHWAITE

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman JAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 228180. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941.

Notes or comments: ex Melbourne, purchased into RN November 1935 (one of Gem Group) for anti-submarine duties, 1940 based at Portland, took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk, 1941 sunk in collision with battleship HMS Rodney off the Clyde. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


BRAITHWAITE

Panel 6, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. JAMES SIMPSON

Trawler

LT/JX. 221456. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Susarion. 7th May, 1941. Son of Charles and Lillian Braithwaite, of Scarborough, Yorkshire; husband of Elsie Braithwaite, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by air attack off Humber. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRAND

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman FREDERICK HECTOR

Trawler

LT/JX. 241199. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1941. Age 29. Son of Charles and Annie Brand; husband of Gladys May Brand, of Stapleford, Nottingham­shire.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2: CWGC) Vessel lost at Normandy 29/7/44. CWGC entry date of 29/7/41 may be error or coincidental.


BRANNAN

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 301774. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BRANTON

Panel 10, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. GEORGE NORMAN

Whaler

LT/JX. 315668. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 20. Son of Edmund and Mabel Hannah Branton, of Islington, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: 251 ton whaler hired March 1940 for minesweeping duties, assigned to Russian Navy February 1942 and lost on passage (unknown cause) in Barents Sea (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRAY

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. KENNETH GEORGE

Trawler

LT/KX. 726262. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 18. Son of Edward George and Dorothy Phyliss Bray, of Warminster, Wiltshire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned 1939 and converted to Minesweeper, based at Grimsby, with 17th M/S Group and from 1943 with 40 M/S Group, sunk by mine off Lizard (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BRAYSHAW

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman ALBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 278445. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler La Nantaise. 8th July, 1945. Age 30. Son of John and Annie Brayshaw, of Leeds, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: ex St. Arcadius, purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, transferred to French Navy as Auxilliary Patrol Vessel and renamed La Nantaise, July 1940 seized at Portsmouth (and reverted to original name according to Toghill but CWGC and all others record as La Nantaise), lost in collison with SS Helencrest in English Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BREEN

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. THOMAS

Trawler

LT/KX. 104273. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pyrope. 12th August, 1940. Age 52. Son of Thomas and Mary Breen, of Wexford, Republic of Ireland.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and coverted to minesweeper, joined 2nd M/S Group at Sheerness, sunk by air attack Thames Estuary (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BREEN

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. PATRICK

Yacht

LT/KX. 99813. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Torrent. 6th April, 1941.

Notes or comments: ex Anna Marie, hired September 1939 for anti-submarine duties and renamed Torrent, 1940 based at Portland, 1941 sunk by mine off Falmouth. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BREEN

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 145592. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 42. Son of John and Marion Ward Breen, of Glasgow; husband of Jane Breen, of Glasgow.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BREMNER

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN WILLIAM

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/JX..170565. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 24. Son of Alexander and Catherine Bremner, of Buckie, Banffshire.


BRENNAN

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. DOUGLAS CHARLES

Trawler

LT/KX. 148896. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 25. Son of Charles Thomas Brennan and Georgina Brennan, of Highgate, Middlesex.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRENNAN

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. CHARLES CUTHBERT

Trawler

LT/KX. 126780. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 28. Son of Thomas and Grace Ellenor Brennan; hus­band of Esther Brennan, of Lemington, Northumberland.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRETTON

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman GEORGE

Trawler

LT/KX. 113682. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Franc Tireur. 25th September, 1943. Age 27. Son of James and Jane Bretton, of Pinxton, Derbyshire.

Notes and Comments: hired for auxilliary patrol May 1940, converted for minwsweeping 1941, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Harwich (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BREWER

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Cook JOHN RICHARD GOODWIN

Trawler

LT/JX. 165972. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940.

Notes and Comments: 540 ton vessel hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by aircraft east of Copinsay, Orkneys (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BREWSTER

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/JX. 189872. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hayburn Wyke. 2nd January, 1945.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, converted to minesweeper 1941, sunk by torpedo whilst at anchor off Ostend (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRIDGE

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman HAROLD

Trawler

LT/JX. 241189. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Son of Arthur and Cathrine Bridge; husband of Edith Bridge, of Seaforth, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: Hills class, launched November 1941 and completed as escort, joined 2nd A/S Group based at Freetown, torpedoed and sunk while escorting Gibraltar convoy by U-521 off Canary Isles, North Atlantic (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


BRIGDEN

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. JACK WILTON

Motor Minesweeper

LT/KX. 152795. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 70. 24th September, 1943. Age 20. Son of Harold and Annie Brigden, of Dudley, Worcestershire.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk believed by mine in Gulf of Taranto, Southern Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BRILL

Panel 7, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. FREDERICK CHARLES

Trawler

LT/KX. 129859. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941.

Notes or comments: 627 ton trawler purchased November 1935 (ex Mavis Rose) and converted for anti-submarine duties. 6th August 1941 escorting convoy FS69, off course, grounded and wrecked on Haisborough (Happisburgh) Sands off Cromer. (Lenton/Colledge; Toghill; Foynes)


BRINDLEY

Panel 17, Column 2.

Engineman JOSEPH

Trawler

LT/X. 3135U. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 42. Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Brindley, of Newcastle­on-Tyne; husband of Elizabeth Jane Brindley, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, 1940 based at Iceland, 1943 134th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by torpedo from U-boat whilst on patrol off Iceland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRISTOW

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman HAROLD JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX.. 114344. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 23. Son of James and Ada Bristow.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


BROCKLESBY

Panel 17, Column 2.

Ch. Engineman WILLIAM ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/KX. 100583. . RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 31. Son of William Henry and Margaret Elizabeth Brocklesby, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire; husband of Lily Brocklesby, of Cleethorpes.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BRODIE

Panel 5, Column 1.

Second Hand JOHN

Trawler

LT/X. 179 SA. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Beech. 22nd June, 1941. Age 26. Son of Andrew and Mary Jane Brodie, of Torry, Aberdeen; husband of Marion Joan Brodie.

Notes or comments: ex Lord Dawson, minesweeping trawler purchased February 1939, 1940 joined the 18th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by aircraft attack north of Scotland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1).


BRODIE

Panel 8, Column 2.

Ldg. Sea. NEIL

Trawler

LT/X. 9429 B. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 11th March, 1942. Age 31. Son of Samuel and Catherine Brodie, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire; husband of Isabella Brodie, of Campbeltown.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BROGDEN

Panel 3, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. NORMAN LAWRENCE

Trawler

LT/JX. 185344. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 23. Son of Thomas Lawrence and Miriam Ethel Brogden, of Grangetown, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned June 1940 and coverted for anti-submarine duties, based at Portland, lost in Channel, probably mined (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BROOKES

Panel 7, Column 3.

Asst. Cook ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/MX. 84533. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Phineas Beard. 8th December, 1941. Age 34. Son of Percy and Elizabeth Hannah Brookes; husband of Charlotte Brookes.

Notes or comments: Castle class, requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk in air attack off east coast of Scotland (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BROOKS

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand CHRISTOPHER

Trawler

LT/JX. 205221. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Conquerante. 26th September, 1940. Age 25. Son of Christopher and Elizebeth F. Brooks, of Fleetweed, Lancashire; husband of Marie Brooks, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.


BROOM

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman ALBERT GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 180409. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Charles Boyes. 25th May, 1940. Age 28. Son of Albert George and Mary Annie Broom, of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.

Notes or comments: Castle class, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to minesweeper, joined 40th M/S Group at Gt. Yarmouth, sunk by mine off East Coast. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BROTHERTON

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman. GEORGE EDWARD

Whaler

LT/JX. 303176. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Santa. 23rd November, 1943.

Notes or comments: 355 ton Whaler requisitioned for minesweeping duties in October 1941 and lost to a mine west of Maddalena, Sardinia (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BROUGHTON

Panel 16, Column 3.

Second Hand THOMAS

Whaler

LT/JX. 166235. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 36. Son of George and Mary Broughton, of Hull; husband of Mabel Broughton, of Hull.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BROWN

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Cook BERTRAM FRANK

Trawler

LT/JX. 164502. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Thuringia. 28th May, 1940. Age 20. Son of H nry William and Ethel Maud Brown, of Barsham, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine in North Sea. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


BROWN

Panel 1, Column 2.

Lieut. ARTHUR ERNEST

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940. Age 44. Son of Charles and Jane Brown; husband of Jessie Louise Brown, of West Derby, Liverpool.

Notes or comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, based at Dover, U-boat to credit (U-16) 23rd October, torpedoed by E-boat off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BROWN

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/X. 346 ET. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler River Clyde. 5th August, 1940.

Notes and Comments: ex Robert Cundy, requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk by mine off Aldeburgh (Toghill: Trawlers1/2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BROWN

Panel 5, Column 1.

Ldg. Sea. EDW ARD RI SPIN

Trawler

LT/JX. 177646. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Asama. 21st March, 1941.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939, converted for minesweeping and sunk by aircraft off Plymouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BROWN

Panel 7, Column 2.

Cook ALBERT EDWARD

Drifter

LT/JX. 213962. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter 1 Thistle. 8th May, 1941.

Notes and Comments: aka Thistle V, requisitioned April 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, September 1940 as examination vessel, sunk by mine off Lowestoft. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BROWN

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. JAMES FORGAN

Trawler

LT/KX. 113617. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Apollo. 22nd November, 1941. Age 27. Son of George F. W. and Jessie Grieve Forgan Brown; hus­band of Isabella Brown, of Macduff, Banffshire.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN in February 1940, converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 3rd Escort Group based at Greenock, employed on Atlantic convoy escort, sunk in collision with destroyer HMS Sardonyx off Hebrides. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BROWN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman BERNARD JAMES

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/JX. 167007. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Age 25. Son of Bernard and Mary Brown, of Preston, Lancashire; husband of Elizabeth Brown, of Preston, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


BROWN

Panel 9, ­Column 3.

Engineman RONALD ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/KX. 124680. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942. Age 26. Son of Henry Ground Brown and Fanny Brown, of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire; husband of Lily Brown, of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.

Notes or comments: Shakespearean class, ordered December 1939, launched October 1940, completed as A/S, 1941 joined 1st M/S-A/S Group at Freetown as convoy escort, torpedoed by U-201 off Freetown (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers1).


BROWN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman THOMAS

LT/JX. 231622. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Princess Astrid. 19th August, 1942. Age 26. Son of James and Emma Morris Brown, of Edge Hill, Liver­pool; husband of Lilian Brown, of Edge Hill, Liverpool.


BROWN

Panel 11, Column 1.

Skipper CHARLES

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 28. Son of George and Annie Brown; husband of Elizabeth Brown, of Port Seton, East Lothian.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


BROWN

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman LEONARD JOHN

Shore Establishment

LT/JX. 400240. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. President III. 11th November, 1943. Age 19. Son of Thomas John and Gertrude May Brown, of Port Isaac, Cornwall.

Notes or comments: HMS President III was the shore establishment based at Bristol which was nominally the posting for all Naval personnel serving in Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (Warlow: Shore Est. RN)


BROWN

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman TERENCE PATRICK

LT/JX. 405112. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Hannibal. 21st February, 1944. Age 19. Son of Michael and Ellen Brown, of St. Helens, Lancashire.


BROWN

Panel 16, Column 2.

Steward GEORGE

Motor Minesweeper

LT/LX. 576566. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 8. 24th June, 1944. Age 19. Son of George and Ellen Maud Brown, of Carshalton, Surrey.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BROWN

Panel 15, Column 1.

Ord. Sigmn. RAYMOND

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 340647. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. Age 19. Son of Albert John and Jessie C. Brown, of Llansamlet, Glamorgan.

Notes and Comments: built by R. Irvin, Peterhead, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BROWN

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman ALAN ROY

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 202355. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 170. 12th October, 1944. Age 22. Son of Arthur and Dorothy Brown, of Canvey Island, Essex.

Notes or comments: built by Frank Curtis, Par, Cornwall, sunk by mine off Gorgona Island, western Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BROWN

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. JOHN THOMAS

Trawler

LT/KX. 106752. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 29. Son of Alice Brown, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Gladys May Brown, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, 1940 based at Iceland, 1943 134th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by torpedo from U-boat whilst on patrol off Iceland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BROWNE

Panel 4, Column 3.

Lieut. JOSEPH GEORGE

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BRUCE

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman NORMAN DUNCAN

Trawler

LT/X. 19024 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 23. Son of Alexander and Mary Jane Walls Bruce, of St. Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney.

Notes or comments: Purchased in RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 7th A/S Group at Gibraltar, sunk in collision with French liner Cheila East of Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BRUCE

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN

Trawler

LT/X. 10038 S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Thuringia. 28th May, 1940. Age 30. Son of George and Margaret Jane Bruce, of Buckie, Banffshire; husband of Rose Bruce, of Buckie.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine in North Sea. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


BRUCE

Panel 3, Column 2.

Ch. Engineman WILLIAM SLATER

Trawler

CT IX. 416 EU. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940. Age 44. Son of John U. Bruce, and of Helen Bruce (nee Henderson); husband of Bessie Moir Bruce (nee Silver), of Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, based at Dover, U-boat to credit (U-16) 23rd October, torpedoed by E-boat off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRUCE

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman FRANCIS WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 177039. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sea King. 9th October, 1940.

Notes or comments: requisitioned for minesweeping duties in August 1939, joined 40th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by underwater explosion believed mine in Grimsby Roads (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRUCE

Panel 6, Column 3.

Engineman JAMES

Trawler

LT/KX. 115986. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cramond Island. 2nd April, 1941. Age 33. Son of James and Helen Jane Bruce, of Portknocke, Banffshire; husband of Mary Bruce, of Portknockie.


BRUCE

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 529132. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned February 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1942 coverted to minesweeper, torpedoed by E-boat whilst in tow off Beachy Head, English Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BRUCE

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. GEORGE STEW ART

Trawler

LT/KX. 160863. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 21. Son of John and Helen Anderson Bruce, of Portree, Isle of Skye.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, 1940 based at Iceland, 1943 134th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by torpedo from U-boat whilst on patrol off Iceland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRUNSON

Panel 7, Column 2.

Seaman Cook JAMES ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/JX. 222222. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941. Age 22. Son of James William and Ellen Alice Brunson, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BRUVIK

Panel 7, Column 2.

Seaman Cook ERLING MARTIN JOHANNESSEN

Whaler

LT/JX. 265200. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Kos XXI. 27th May, 1941. Age 20. Son of Johannes Martin Johannessen Bruvik and of Nikoline Andrina Nilsen Hammersland, of Bruvik, Norway.

Notes or comments: Norwegian whaler hired for anti-submarine duties 1940, renamed Whippet September 1941, sunk by air attack Mediterranean. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2). Native of Norway


BRYAN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman RAYMOND FRANK

Trawler

LT/JX. 240935. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Son of Frank and Kate Bryan, of Lyddington, Rutland.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat tropedo in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BRYANT

Panel 2, Column 1.

Ldg. Sea. JOHN HERBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 165967. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stamp. 14th October, 1940. Age 22. Son of Herbert John and Lily Blanche Bryant, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUCHAN

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JAMES ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/X.18079 A. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940.

Notes or comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, based at Dover, U-boat to credit (U-16) 23rd October, torpedoed by E-boat off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2). Vessel name recorded by CWGC as 'Cayfon Wyke'.


BUCHAN

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. JOHN TAIT

Trawler

LT/KX. 111461. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stonehaven. 2nd October, 1942. Age 25. Son of Gilbert and Christian Buchan, of Caimbulg, Aberdeenshire; husband of Christina Buchan, of Caimbulg.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Eddystone (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUCHAN

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN WILLlAM DUTHIE

Motor Minesweeper

LT/KX. 125479. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 70. 24th September, 1943. Age 31. Husband of Helen Buchan, of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. .

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk believed by mine in Gulf of Taranto, Southern Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


BUCHAN

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman WILLlAM REID

Whaler

LT/KX. 131039. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Santa. 23rd November, 1943. Age 39. Husband of Annie Buchan, of Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: 355 ton Whaler requisitioned for minesweeping duties in October 1941 and lost to a mine west of Maddalena, Sardinia (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BUCHANAN

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/JX. 198948. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 24. Son of Thomas and Margaret Buchanan; hus1:>and of Lily Buchanan, of Dunbar, East Lothian.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, 1940 based at Iceland, 1943 134th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by torpedo from U-boat whilst on patrol off Iceland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUCKLEY

Panel 13, Column 3.

Sub-Lieut. GORDON HENRY.

Trawler

RNVR, H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 32. Son of Fred and Edith Buckley, . of Droylsden, Lancashire; husband of Edith Buckley, of Audenshaw, Lancashire.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUCKMASTER

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman JAMES HENRY

Trawler

LT/JX. 327617. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 20. Son of Henry Charles and Lillian Amy Louise Buckmaster.

Notes and Comments: ex Rylston, requisitioned October 1939 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted to minesweeper, 1943 sunk by Italian Submarine Acciaio off Algiers (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUDDO

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman JOHN

LT/JX. 222370. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Kerrera. 28th July, 1943. Age 34. Son of Lawrence and Janet Buddo; husband of Williamina Buddo, of Ladybank, Fife.


BULMER

Panel 7, Column 3.

Lieut. WILLlAM EDW ARD

Whaler

RNR. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 26. Son I of George F. and Annie BuImer, of Wallasey, I Cheshire.

Notes or comments: 251 ton whaler hired March 1940 for minesweeping duties, assigned to Russian Navy February 1942 and lost on passage (unknown cause) in Barents Sea Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUNNETT

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman ARTHUR GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 220704. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 30. Son of Arthur John and Ethel Bunnett, of Walthamstow, Essex; husband of Alice Elizabeth Bunnett, of Walthamstow.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned 1939 and converted to Minesweeper, based at Grimsby, with 17th M/S Group and from 1943 with 40 M/S Group, sunk by mine off Lizard (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BUNTING

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman FREDERICK ROBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 265179. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 20. Son of Frederick Robert and Hilda Annie Bunting; husband of Eleanor Doreen Bunting, of Gaywood, Norfolk.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat tropedo in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUNYAN

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. ALEXANDER GILLIES

Trawler

LT/KX. 147619. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 34. Son of Alexander and A n Bunyan, of Melrose, Roxburghshire; husband of Isabel1a Lillico Bunyan, of Melrose.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 as minesweeper, joined the Harwich M/S Groups, torpedoed by E-boat while sweeping off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BURDETT

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman JOHN JOSEPH

Trawler

LT!JX. 179413. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 21. Son of Mary F. Burdett, of Belgrave, Leicestershire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


BURGESS

Panel 1, Column 3.

Skipper WALTER HARCOURT

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Stella Dorado. 1st June, 1940. Age 34. Son of William and Nellie M. Burgess; husband of Emmie Burgess, of Swansea.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk May/June, torpedoed by U-boat/E-boat (references vary: Toghill U-boat, others E-boat) off Dunkirk. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BURGESS

Panel 7, Column 2.

Seaman Cook LEWIS REGINALD

Drifter

LT/JX. 15795. R.N. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th May, 1941. Age 27. Son of Samuel Charles and Florence Minnie Burgess.

Notes or comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted for minesweeping duties, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by air attack off Lowestoft. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BURGHAM

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ALFRED EDWARD SEPTIMUS

Trawler

LT/KX. 532059. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 19. Son of Alfred and Frances Anne Burgham, of Abertillery, Monmouthshire.

Notes or comments: ex Belgian trawler converted in French minesweeper, seized at Southampton July 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted back to minesweeper and based on Humber, 1943 19th M/S Group at Grimsby, torpedoed by E-boat off the Humber (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BURGON

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman DAVID

Trawler

LT/X. 7388C RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers. 2nd June, 1940. Age 32. Husband of Elizabeth Burgon, of Tweedmouth, Northumberland.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned August 1939 for mine-sweeping duties, commissioned in October and based at Dover. June 1940, in company with Westella and Saon, detected submarine and while making approach for depth charge attack struck mine. Westella going to assistance also struck mine and sank. (Toghill: Trawlers1). Anomaly - Location stated variously as North Sea for BR and Dunkirk for W (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


BURGOYNE

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman ROBERT WILLIAM EDWARD GRANT

Trawler

LT/KX. 104261. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Royalo. 1st September, 1940. Age 64. Son of Robert and Sarah Burgoyne; husband of Rosina Burgoyne, of Willington Quay, Northumberland.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned November 1939 as Aux. Patrol Vessel. Converted to Minesweeper January 1940, mined whilst sweeping Mounts Bay, Cornwall, 1/9/40 (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BURKE

Panel 6, Column 3.

Engineman THOMAS

Trawler

LT/KX. 99810. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Asama. 21st March, 1941. Son of William and Mary Burke; husband of Jessie Burke, of Greenock, Renfrewshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939, converted for minesweeping and sunk by aircraft off Plymouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BURKE

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman DENIS

Trawler

LT/JX. 218232. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Son of Mrs. M. Burke, of Stepps, Lanarkshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BURNETT

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. RONALD WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 1O321S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Comet. 30th September, 1940.

Notes or comments: ex Tamura, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to Decoy vessel, sunk by mine aff Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


BURNETT

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. ALFRED

Trawler

LT/KX. 109743. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941.

Notes or comments: Tree class admiralty trawler, taken into service May 1940 as minesweeper, sunk by mine off Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BURNETT

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. DAVID HEPBURN

Trawler

LT/KX. 111489. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941.

Notes or comments: Tree class admiralty trawler, taken into service May 1940 as minesweeper, sunk by mine off Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers1)


BURNS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman WILLIAM EDWARD

Trawler

LT/IX. 185705. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940. Age 24. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Burns; husband of Ester Burns.

Notes and Comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BURNS

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman LAWRENCE

Trawler

LT/IX. 207699. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942. Age 22. Son of James and Martha Holmes Burns, of Rutherglen, Lanarkshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned in September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1942 on loan to USN from February and sunk in collision with SS Hebe off Georgetown, South Carolina. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BURRELL

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/IX. 303688. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 24. Son of William and Minnie Burrell, of Bewsey, Warrington, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: Isles class, Ordered March 1943, launched December, completed March 1944 as A/S, took part in Op. Neptune, as Dan layer to 1st M/S Flotilla at Sword, sunk by Human torpedo off Ostend Toghill: Trawlers1)


BURRETT

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman SIDNEY

Trawler

LT/IX. 180448. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Age 20. Son of Azulah Burrett, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: 627 ton trawler purchased November 1935 (ex Mavis Rose) and converted for anti-submarine duties. 6th August 1941 escorting convoy FS69, off course, grounded and wrecked on Haisborough (Happisburgh) Sands off Cromer. (Lenton/Colledge; Toghill; Foynes)


BURROUGHS

Panel 8, Column 2.

Second Hand SIDNEY CHARLES

Whaler

LT/IX. 177061. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 28. Son of Bertie Alfred and Harriet Anna Burroughs, of Aldeby, Norfolk; husband of Ivy 'Blanche Burroughs, of Aldeby, Norfolk.

Notes or comments: recorded by CWGC as a trawler, recorded by Colledge as ex Norwegian whaler Kos XXIX, purchased August 1939 for anti-submarine duties, sunk by torpedo from E-boat off Plymouth in English Channel. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; warsailors.com)


BURROWS

Panel 12, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. LESLIE

Trawler

LT/IX. 534098. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 19939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, converted for anti-submarine duties March 1941, sunk by broken free friendly mine north of Ireland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


BURWOOD

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman FREDERICK WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/IX. 173603. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rinovia. 2nd November, 1940.

Notes and Comments: Hired August 1939 as minesweeper, sunk by mine off Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUSH

Panel 10, Column 2.

Ldg. Steward JOHN HENRY

Trawler

LT/LX. 29313. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alouette. 19th September, 1942. Age 22. Son of Iohn Samuel and Ethel Daisy Bush, of Clee­thorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: ex Esquimaux, hired as minesweeping trawler August 1939, sunk by U-552 off Portugal, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUSHEN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman REGINALD CHARLES JAMES

Whaler

LT/IX. 242112. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 30. Son of William Edwin and Helen Bushen, of Minehead, Somerset.

Notes or comments: recorded by CWGC as a trawler, recorded by Colledge as ex Norwegian whaler Kos XXIX, purchased August 1939 for anti-submarine duties, sunk by torpedo from E-boat off Plymouth in English Channel. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; warsailors.com)


BUSSEY

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman GEORGE ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/JX. 227388. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned May 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, Janury 1941 converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 31st A/S Group at Gibraltar, sank U-111 off Teneriffe October, torpedoed U-374 off Gibraltar (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


BUTLER

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman SYDNEY ALBERT

Trawler

LT/IX. 215738. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941.Age 26. Son of George and Hetty Butler; husband of Annie May Butler (nee White), of Boston, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, based at Grimsby, sunk by air attack off Ramsgate (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


BUTLER

Panel 16, Column 2.

Seaman JOHN EDGAR

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/JX. 280226. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2154. 3rd October, 1944. Native of Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: Native of Newfoundland


BUTT

Panel 13, Column 2.

Seaman ELIJAH CYRIL

Trawler

LT/IX. 188859. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 26. Son of William and Annie Butt, of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net) Native of Newfoundland


BUXTON

Panel 3, Column 2.

Ch. Engineman CHARLES HENRY

Trawler

LT/KX. 98923. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940.

Notes and Comments: 540 ton vessel hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by aircraft east of Copinsay, Orkneys (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


BUXTON

Panel 10, Column 2.

Asst. Cook FREDERICK JOHN

Trawler

LT/MX. 82131. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942.

Notes or comments: requisitioned in September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1942 on loan to USN from February and sunk in collision with SS Hebe off Georgetown, South Carolina. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BYE

Panel 6, Column 2.

Engineman WILLIAM ROBERT GEORGE

Drifter

LT/KX. 106805. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th May, 1941. Age 42. S.on of William and Rebecca Bye; husband of Eva Charlotte Bye, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted for minesweeping duties, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by air attack off Lowestoft. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


BYROM

Panel 13, Column 2.

Second Hand WILLIAM ALEX

Motor Minesweeper

LT/IX..180304. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 117. 1st September, 1944. Age 37. Son of Iohn William and Annie Byrom, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Dods May Byrom, of Grimsby.

Notes and Comments: built by J. S. Doig, Grimsby, sunk by mine Savita Vecchia, western Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


CADLFIELD

Panel 14, Column 1.

Ldg. Sea. FREDERICK

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 183819. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 117. 1st September, 1944. Age 28. Son of Frederick and Agnes Caulfield; husband of Mary Caulfield, of Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.

Notes and Comments: built by J. S. Doig, Grimsby, sunk by mine Savita Vecchia, western Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


CALVERT

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 173477. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Phineas Beard. 8th December, 1941. Age 30. Son of Gibson and Mary Ann Calvert; husband of Ivy Calvert, of Brighouse, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Castle class, requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk in air attack off east coast of Scotland (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CAMBURN

Panel 11, Column 1.

Ldg. Sea. ERNEST

Trawler

LT/IX. 241575. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 32. Son of Charles and Davida Camburn, of Whitstable, Kent.

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CAMDEN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman HUGH YATES

Trawler

LT/JX. 170714. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 11th March, 1942. Age 27. Son of Hugh Yates Camden and Lucy Rycroft Camden, of Waterloo, Liverpool.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CAMERON

Panel 10, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/KX. 144216. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 36. Son of Angus and Jean Cameron, of Paisley, Renfrew­shire; husband of Jean Cameron, of Paisley.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


CAMMISH

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM IRISH

Trawler

LT/JX. 202057. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Phineas Beard. 8th December, 1941. Age 29. Son of Edmond and Nellie Irish Cammish, of Filey, Yorkshire; husband of Mary Alice Cammish, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Castle class, requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk in air attack off east coast of Scotland (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CAMPBELL

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman KEITH MCFADYEN

Trawler

LT/JX. 192157. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Galena. 24th July, 1940.

Notes and Comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 9th A/S Group at Dover, sunk by air attack off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CAMPBELL

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JAMES ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/JX. 183234. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Sirius. 25th September, 1940. Age 24. Son of Alexander and Lena Campbell, of Findochty, Banffshire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 1939 and coverted for anti-submarine duties, sunk in attack on Gibraltar by Vichy French (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CAMPBELL

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman ANGUS

Trawler

LT/JX. 376160. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CAMPBELL

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ANDREW DONALD

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/KX. 527201. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 19. Son of William and Jean Campbell, of Edinburgh.


CAMPBELL

Panel 13, Column 2.

Lieut. DONALD CHARLES

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 33. Son of Charles Donald Campbell and Elizabeth Campbell, of Hove, Sussex.

Notes or comments: Isles class, Ordered March 1943, launched December, completed March 1944 as A/S, took part in Op. Neptune, as Dan layer to 1st M/S Flotilla at Sword, sunk by Human torpedo off Ostend Toghill: Trawlers1)


CAMSELL

Panel 10, Column 2.

Cook JOHN EDW'IN

Whaler

LT/MX. 87346. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 25. Son of John Edwin and Martha Ellen Camsell, of Heeley, Sheffield.

Notes or comments: recorded by CWGC as a trawler, recorded by Colledge as ex Norwegian whaler Kos XXIX, purchased August 1939 for anti-submarine duties, sunk by torpedo from E-boat off Plymouth in English Channel. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; warsailors.com)


CAPEL

Panel 13, Column 1.

Cook ARTHUR JOHN

LT/MX. 105803. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Wildfire. 3rd May, 1943. Age 32. Son of Arthur E. and Charlotte L. Capel, of Botley, Berkshire.


CAPPLEMAN

Panel 13, Column 3.

Second Hand FRANCIS EDWARD

LT/X. 29050 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.S. Mewstone. 14th February, 1944. Age 27. Son of Francis Edward and Annie Cappleman; husband of Elizabeth Cappleman, of Garden Village, Hull.


CAPPLEMAN

Panel 16, Column 3.

Ldg. Sea. ROBERT WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 195846. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 24. Son of Robert arid Ethel M. Cappleman, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, 1940 based at Iceland, 1943 134th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by torpedo from U-boat whilst on patrol off Iceland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CAREN

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. FREDERICK

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/JX. 257660. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Age 35. Son of Charles A. and Mary Elizabeth Caren, of Liverpool.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


CARGILL

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman JAMEs

Trawler

LT/JX. 192254. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941.

Notes or comments: 627 ton trawler purchased November 1935 (ex Mavis Rose) and converted for anti-submarine duties. 6th August 1941 escorting convoy FS69, off course, grounded and wrecked on Haisborough (Happisburgh) Sands off Cromer. (Lenton/Colledge; Toghill; Foynes)


CARNALL

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. RUEBEN JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 152907. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 20. Son of Reuben and Florence Carnall, of. Lightwood, Longton, Staffordshire.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CARRINGTON

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman GEORGE WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 372556. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hayburn Wyke. 2nd January, 1945. Age 22. Son of William and Doris Elizabeth Carrington, of Cullingworth, Yorkshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, converted to minesweeper 1941, sunk by torpedo whilst at anchor off Ostend (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CARRVTHERS

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. EDWARD SYDNEY

Trawler

LT/JX. 286018. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 20. Son of Edward and Elsie Carruthers, of Newtown, Carlisle, Cumber­land.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


CARTER

Panel 10, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. GEORGE HENRY

Trawler

LT/KX. 131452. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. Son of John and Alice Maude Carter, of East Ham, Essex; husband of Eliza Carter, of East Ham.

Notes or comments: French minesweeper seized at Southampton in July 1940, taken into RN as minesweeper, sunk by U-203 in Atlantic. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CARTER

Panel 11, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. RONALD SYKES

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Jura. 7th January, 1943. Age 28. Son of Thomas Henry and Olive Carter, of Honley, Yorkshire. B.Sc. (Liverpool).

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched November 1941, deployed to the Mediterranean 1942, sunk by U-371 in Western Med. (Toghill: Trawlers1;Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CARTER

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman JAMES SUTHERLAND

Shore Establishment

LT/JX. 400268. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. President III. 11th November, 1943. Age 20. Son .of Hugh and May Carter, of Lybster, Caithness­shire.

Notes or comments: HMS President III was the shore establishment based at Bristol which was nominally the posting for all Naval personnel serving in Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (Warlow: Shore Est. RN)


CARTER

Panel 15, Column 1.

Ord. Sgmn. CYRIL LESLIE

Trawler

LT/JX. 662225. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 18. Son of John Thomas Carter and of Lilian Ivy Carter (nee Stanley), of, West Bromwich, Staffordshire.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CARTER

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. ERNEST WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/KX. 596374. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 34. Son of Ernest and Lily Carter, of Hull; husban of Freda Carter, of Hull.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, 1940 based at Iceland, 1943 134th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by torpedo from U-boat whilst on patrol off Iceland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CARTWRIGHT

Panel 4, Column 1.

Sto. 2nd Cl. WILLlAM CHARLES MELVILLE

Trawler

LT/KX. 106424. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Waveflower. 22nd October, 1940. Age 23. Son of Charles Cartwright, and of Dora Cartwright, of Barrow­in-Furness, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN and converted to minesweeper 1939, sunk by mine off Aldeburgh October 1940. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CASEY

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman CYRIL GEORGE STANLEY

Yacht

LT/JX. 261529. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Age 18. Son of Richard Henry and Emma Jane Casey, of Colchester, Essex.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN September 1939 as armed boarding vessel, sunk by U-374 off Gibraltar. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CASEY

Panel 15, Column 1.

Telegraphist ERIC ARNOLD

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 323086. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 170. 12th October, 1944. Age 23. Son of William James Casey and Edith Jenny Casey, of Wolverhampton; husband of Joyce Casey, of Wolverhampton.

Notes or comments: built by Frank Curtis, Par, Cornwall, sunk by mine off Gorgona Island, western Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


CASTLE

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ERNEST ALFRED

Minelayer

LT/JX. 183115. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


CASTLEMAN

Panel 13, Column 2.

Steward LESLlE FRANCIS

Trawler

LT/LX. 28229. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 20. Son of Charles Albert and Elizabeth Castleman; husband of Patricia Castleman.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned February 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1942 coverted to minesweeper, torpedoed by E-boat whilst in tow off Beachy Head, English Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CATCHPOLE

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JACK CORNWALL

Trawler

LT/JX. 173610. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Comet. 30th September, 1940. Age 24. Son of Isaac John and Edith Annie Catchpole, of Kessingland, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: ex Tamura, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to Decoy vessel, sunk by mine aff Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CATO

Panel 10, Column 2.

Asst. Cook WILLIAM ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/MX. 93622. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 20. Son of Ernest and Emily Cato, of Kirtlington, Oxfordshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat tropedo in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CATON

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman HENRY EDWARD

Motor Launch

LT/JX. 181775. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1226. 4th October, 1945.


CERRINO

Panel 8, Column 2..

Ldg. Sea. GEORGE WHILEY

Trawler

LT/X. 19504A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 24. Son of Jack and Ruby Cerrino, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


CHADWICK

Panel 16, Column 2.

Steward GILBERT

Trawler

LT/LX.30624. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 27th July, 1944. Age 20. Son of Thomas and Sarah Annie Chadwick, of BucknaIl, Staffordshire.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHALLIS

Panel 8, Column 2.

Second Hand WILLIAM CHARLES

Whaler

LT/JX. 185847. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Son of George and Alice Challis; husband of Mabel Vera Challis, of Toft Monks, Norfolk.

Notes or comments: 251 ton whaler hired March 1940 for minesweeping duties, assigned to Russian Navy February 1942 and lost on passage (unknown cause) in Barents Sea (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHALMERS

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. ROBERT GILMOUR BUDGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 281991. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stonehaven. 2nd October, 1942. . Age 19. Son of Thomas William and Mary A. B. Chalmers, of Maryhill, Glasgow.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Eddystone (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHALMERS

Panel 11, Column 2.

Ldg. Sea. lAMES WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 21225 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Son of William Grant Chalmers and Florence Chalmers; husband of Marjorie Chalmers, of Hull.

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHALMERS

Panel 14, Column 1..

Seaman ROBERT WILLlAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 180332. RN. Patrol Service, H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHAPMAN

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman CHARLES GLEDOE

Trawler

LT/X. 20188A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 20. Son of John Henry and Georgina Chapman; husband of Gertrude Chapman.

Notes or comments: Tree class, purchased December 1939, commissioned March 1940 and joined 19th A/S Strike Force in Orkneys, in Norwegian campaign April/May, escorting tanker from Tromso when sighted squadron comprising Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper and four destroyers. Sailed to meet flying battle ensign and lasted incredible 90 minutes before before being sunk by Hipper gunfire, four survivors (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHAPMAN

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman GEORGE ARTHUR

Trawler

LT/JX. 286660. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 22. Son of Jarvis and Henrietta hapman, of Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire; husband of Ruby Chapman, of Barton upon Humber.

Notes and Comments: ex Rylston, requisitioned October 1939 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted to minesweeper, 1943 sunk by Italian Submarine Acciaio off Algiers (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHAPMAN

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman SIDNEY ERNEST AUBREY

Shore Establishment

LT/JX.241527. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Martello. 28th November, 1945.

Notes and Comments: Martello was the local minesweeping base at Lowestoft (described as Auxilliary Patrol base in Warlow: Shore est. RN)


CHAPPELL

Panel 12, Column 2.

Ord. Sgmn. CHARLES MONTAGUE WILLIAM

LT/JX. 228688. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Aldic. 29th December, 1943. Age 27. Son of Arthur Charles Chappell, and of Amy Victoria Chappell, of Finsbury Park, Middlesex.


CHAPPLE

Panel 13, Column 3.

Petty Officer DAVID

Trawler

LT/JX. 177038. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 24. Son of William Henry and Julia Fanny Chapp1e, of Beer, Devon.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


CHARLES

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. JOHN THOMAS

Trawler

LT/KX. 151595. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 21. Son of John William and Elsie Charles, of Birtley, Co. Durham.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


CHARLTON

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman LESLIE GUILDFORD

Trawler

LT/JX. 170732. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Robert Bowen. 9th February, 1940. Age 19. Son of Robert Spence Charlton and Agnes Ann Charlton, of Norfolk Shields, Northumberland.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, M/S Group Leader based at Aberdeen, in company with Fort Royal and Thomas Altoft when bombed by 2 he111's and sunk 20 miles NE Aberdeen (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHARLTON

Panel 4, Column 3.

Skipper WILLIAM TODD MATTHEWS

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Fortuna. 2nd April, 1941. Age 37. Son of John and Margaret Charlton, of Torry, Aberdeen; husband of Elizabeth A. T. Charlton, of Aberdeen.

Notes and Comments: hired for auxilliary patrol June 1940, sunk by air attack off St. Abbs Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHARLTON

Panel 17, Column 2.

Sto. BENJAMIN PETER

Trawler

LT/KX. 120082. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hayburn Wyke. 2nd January, 1945. Age 28. Son of William Henry John and Hannah Celia Charlton, of Croydon, Surrey.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, converted to minesweeper 1941, sunk by torpedo whilst at anchor off Ostend (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHESNUTT

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman RALPH

Trawler

LT/JX. 222422. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alberie. 3rd May, 1941. Age 17. Son of George and Cecilia Maud Chesnutt, of Higher Brimley, Devon.

Notes or comments: 286 ton trawler Alberia requisitioned April 1940, renamed Alberic and coverted for minesweeping. Sunk in collision with destroyer HMS St. Albans off Scapa Flow (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHESWORTH

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman ROY

Trawler

LT/JX. 350791. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 20. Son of Charles Henry and Emily Chesworth, of Rotherham, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned February 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1942 coverted to minesweeper, torpedoed by E-boat whilst in tow off Beachy Head, English Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CHICKEN

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN ROBERT

Trawler

LT/X. 21474A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940. Age 21. Son of George and Helen Chicken, of North Shields, Northumberland.

Notes and Comments: 540 ton vessel hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by aircraft east of Copinsay, Orkneys (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHILD

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. WALTER

Trawler

LT/KX. 104354. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alouette. 19th September, 1942. Age 25. Son of George A. and Hannah Child, of Castleford, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: ex Esquimaux, hired as minesweeping trawler August 1939, sunk by U-552 off Portugal, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHILDS

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman ALFRED HERBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 264088. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ythan Braes. 10th March, 1943. Age 33. Husband of Alice Childs, of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.


CHILDS

Panel 11, . Column 1.

Lieut. JAMES NOEL

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 32. Son of Philip Hugh and Mabel Harriot Childs; husband of Kathleen Egerton Childs, of Ipswich, Suffolk. Qualified Solicitor.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 as minesweeper, joined the Harwich M/S Groups, torpedoed by E-boat while sweeping off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHINN

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM RICHARD

Trawler

LT/JX. I1 173155. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941. Son of William I John and Minnie Chinn, of Penzance, Cornwall; I husband of L. Chinn, of Newlyn, Cornwall.

Notes or comments: ex Melbourne, purchased into RN November 1935 (one of Gem Group) for anti-submarine duties, 1940 based at Portland, took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk, 1941 sunk in collision with battleship HMS Rodney off the Clyde. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


CHIPPENDALE

Panel 8, Column 2.

Ldg. Sea. RICHARD

Trawler

LT/X. 19583A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 25. Son of William Pearson Chippendale and Elizabeth Ann Chippendale; husband of Mildred J. Chip­pendale, of Ilford, Essex.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


CHISHOLM

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. JAMES ANDERSON

Drifter

LT/KX. 125340. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Receptive. 3rd July, 1941. Age 37. Son of David Scott Chisholm and Margaret Chisholm, of Plaistow, Essex; husband of Ivy Gertrude Chisholm, of Plaistow.

Notes and Comments: April 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CHISHOLM

Panel 4, Column 3.

Lieut. WALTER BRUCE

Whaler

RNVR. H.M.S. Thorbryn. 19th August, 1941. Age 33. Son of WaIter John and May Chisholm; husband of Lilian Ivy Beatrice Chisholm, of Canons Park, Edgware, Middlesex.

Notes or comments: 305 ton Norwegian whaler hired for anti-submarine duties November 1940, sunk by German air attack off Tobruk, also recorded in some references as 'Thornbryn' (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2)


CHRISTIE

Panel 8, Column 2.

Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM JOHN CRAIG

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/JX. 215811. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Son of Robert and Elsepet Christie; husband of Jean Christie, of Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


CLAGUE

Panel 9, Column 2..

Ord. Sea. JOSEPH WILLIAM

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/JX. 257763. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Son of Joseph William and Sarah Hannah Clague, of Workington, Cumber­land.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


CLANACHAN

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN JOSEPH

Trawler

LT/KX. 110424. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Daneman. 9th May, 1943. Son of Mathew and Rosina Clanachan; husband of Louisa Clanachan, of Glasgow.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, collided with submerged ice and abandoned after being taken in tow, North Atlantic (HMSO: BVLS 1939-45; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLARK

Panel 1, Column 2.

Skipper Lieut. JOHN

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Robert Bowen. 9th February, 1940. Age 49. Husband of Mary Clark, of Aberdeen.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, M/S Group Leader based at Aberdeen, in company with Fort Royal and Thomas Altoft when bombed by 2 he111's and sunk 20 miles NE Aberdeen (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLARK

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman LAURENCE LEVI

Trawler

LT/X. 2161OA. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler . Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940. Age 25. Son of John and Elizabeth Clark; husband of Margaret J. Clark, of Lerwick, Zetland.

Notes or comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, based at Dover, U-boat to credit (U-16) 23rd October, torpedoed by E-boat off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLARK

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman JOHN THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 185294. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Age 32. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Clark, of Scarborough, Yorkshire; husband of Florence Mabel Clark, of Scarborough.

Notes or comments: Tree class admiralty trawler, taken into service May 1940 as minesweeper, sunk by mine off Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers1)


CLARK

Panel 7, Column 2.

Cook MATTHEW AITKEN

Yacht

LT/JX. 216257. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Viva II. 8th May, 1941. Age 23. Son of John Barry CIark and Agnes Clark; husband of Margaret McL. Clark, of Alva, Clackmannanshire.

Notes or comments: hired September 1939 as an anti-submarine vessel, sunk by air attack off north coast of Cornwall. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


CLARK

Panel 9, Column 3.

Engineman JAMES WILLIAM

Drifter

LT/X. 10109 S. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Drifter Unicity. 31st January, 1942. Age 32. Son of William Davidson Clark and Martha Jane Clark, of South Shields, Co. Durham; husband of Dorothy Clark, of South Shields.

Notes or comments: hired as minesweeper December 1939, January 1942 capsized and sank while sweeping off Blyth, North Sea, raised and broken up October 1943. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


CLARK

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. FELIX

Trawler

LT/KX. 119716. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 26. Son of Thomas and Agnes Clark; husband of Catherine Clark, of Tannockside, Lanarkshire.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


CLARK

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. EDWARD MURRAY ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/KX. 148616. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launches April 1943, torpedoed by E-boats whilst unbuttoning small convoy from the Bristol Channel to Plymouth, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


CLARK

Panel 15, Column 1.

Ord. Tel. JOHN GEORGE

Whaler

LT/JX. 214475. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Maaloy. 27th March, 1944. Age 23. Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Clark, of York.

Notes or comments: Norwegian whaler, originally Globe VI, hired April 1941 as a minesweeper, renamed Maaloy, sunk by U-boat off Ceylon (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLARK

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman PETER

Trawler

LT/JX. 193149. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Austin. 24th June, 1944. Age 40. Son of Simon and Margaret Clark, of Musselburgh, Midlothian; husband of Jean Thomson Clark, of Mussel­burgh.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined the Northern Patrol, 1941 transferred to Iceland command for Russian convoys until December 1943, paid off and refitted, recomissioned May 1944, A/S escort at Op. Neptune, sunk by acoustic mine Seine Bay, Normandy (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CLARK

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. HENRY SAMUEL

Tug

LT/KX. 160325. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Tug Empire Wold. 10th November, 1944. Age 20. Son of Henry Samuel and Annie Clark, of Stepney, London.

Notes or comments: Warrior class screw tug based at Rejkavic, Iceland, sent to assist tanker Shirvan in convoy UR142, records listed her as torpedoed and sunk by U.300 at 64.08N 22.38W, however u-boat records do not claim credit and it is thought more likely she foundered in heavy weather (u-boat.net; thames_tugs.net)


CLARKE

Panel 1, Column 1.

Seaman WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 21741 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Mastiff. 20th November, 1939. Age 27. Son of Frederick and Mary Clarke, of Westhall, Suffolk; husband of Edith Violet Clarke, of Westhall.


CLARKE

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. JEREMIAH

Trawler

LT/X. 10302 S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Pelton. 23rd December, 1940. Age 22. Son of Mary Ellen Clarke, of Tilbury, Essex.

Notes and Comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, 1940 took part in telephone cable cutting operation between Germany and UK in North Sea, December torpedoed by E-boat off Great Yarmouth (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


CLARKE

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. HAROLD DAVID

Trawler

LT/KX. 137278. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 19. Son of John Henry and Ethel Agnes Clarke, of Shering­ham, Norfolk.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CLARKE

Panel 10, Column 3.

Steward RAYMOND

Trawler

LT/LX. 30281.RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Waterfly. 17th September, 1942. Age 29. Son of Mrs. A. M. Clarke, of Norwich.

Notes or comments: ex Walpole, requisitioned September 1939 and converted for minesweeping, based at Kirkwall for sweeping in Scapa Flow, 1941 transferred to Dover and 46th M/S Group, sunk by air attack off Dungenness, English Channel. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLARKE

Panel 16, Column 2.

Steward JOHN WILLIAM WYRETT

Barrage Balloon Vessel

LT/LX. 575166. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 45. Foster son of Robert Thurston Adams and Emily Flora Adams, of Haughley, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin)


CLAYDON

Panel 13, Column 1.

Ldg. Cook ALFRED WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/MX. 87143. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Jacinth. 12th January, 1943.. Age 24. Son of C.P.O. Walter Claydon, RN., and Sarah Claydon, of Cambridge; husband of Violet Joan Louisa Claydon, of Cambridge.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, 1940 converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine off Portsmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLEMENCE

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. WILLIAM FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/JX. 279627. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 21. Son of Frederick Wright Clemence and Alice Frances Clemence, of Sutton, Surrey.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


CLEVELAND

Panel 1, Column 2.

Ch. Skipper WILLIAM GARWOOD

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Myrtle. 14th June, 1940.

Notes or comments: ex St. Irene, purchased as minesweeper March 1939, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLIFFE

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman GEORGE WILLIAM

Shore Establishment

LT/X. 19175 A. RNR (Patrol Service). H.M.S. Europa II. 19th August, 1942. Age 25. Son of George and Lily Cliffe, of Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Pauline Beatrice Cliffe, of Sneyd Green, Hanley, Staffordshire.

Notes and Comments: Europa was headquarters and central depot of RNPS at Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft. Europa II was overflow camp at Bungay


CLIMPSON

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman REGINALD ERNEST

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 210718. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 68. 4th February, 1945. Age 34. Son of Ernest Stanton Climpson and Louisa Mary Climpson, of Hastings, Sussex; husband of Annie Climpson, of Hastings.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


CLINE

Panel 4, Column 3.

Lieut. LEONARD HARRY

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Age 38.

Notes or comments: 627 ton trawler purchased November 1935 (ex Mavis Rose) and converted for anti-submarine duties. 6th August 1941 escorting convoy FS69, off course, grounded and wrecked on Haisborough (Happisburgh) Sands off Cromer. (Lenton/Colledge; Toghill; Foynes)


CLOUGH

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman LEONARD VERNON

Whaler

LT/JX. 196430. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 22. Son of Martin and Ann Clough; husband of Mary Winifred Agnes Joan Clough, of Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: 253 ton whaler hired as minesweeper March 1940, assigned to Russian Navy and lost on passage (capsized in heavy swell and pack ice, Barents Sea) 9th March 1942 (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CLUCAS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN ROBERT

Trawler

LT/X. 10337B. R.N.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Argyleshire. 1st June, 1940. Age 26. Son of John James Clucas and Margaret Clucas, of Peel, Isle of Man; husband of Phyllis Margaret Clucas, of Peel.

Notes or comments: CWGC recorded as Argyleshire and Argyllshire. Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 11th A/S Striking Group, took part in Norwegian campaign April/May 1940 and evacuation of Dunkirk, sunk by torpedo from E-boat off Dunkirk (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CLUTTERBUCK

Panel 8, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. HENRY

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 24. Son of WiIIiam and Mabel Gertrude Clutterbuck, of Birming­ham.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


CLYDESDALE

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ROBERT EDWIN

Barrage Balloon Vessel

LT/KX. 102900. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 26. Son of Robert and Mary Clydesdale, of Liverpool.

Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin)


COATES

Panel 13, Column 3.

Elec. Sub-Lieut. NELSON

Motor Minesweeper

RNVR. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. Age 23. Son of James and EIIa Olive Coates, of ToIIesbury, Essex.

Notes and Comments: built by R. Irvin, Peterhead, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


COCHRANE

Panel 16, Column 1.

Cook ERIC ASQUITH

Trawler

LT/MX. 533770. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 22. Son of EIIen Cochrane, of BoIIington, Cheshire.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COCKERILL

Panel 16, Column 2.

Steward VICTOR JOSEPH ALBERT

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/LX. 31344. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 20. Son of Joseph. Albert and Olive Mary. CockeriII, of Northampton.


COCKING

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. SIDNEY GARDNER

Trawler

LT/KX. 98229. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stamp. 14th October, 1940. Age 24. Son of WiIIie and Florence E. Cocking, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COCKINGS

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman HARRY

LT/IX. 280094. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Tarantella. 6th September, 1942. Age 32. Son of William Edward and Mary Ann Cockings; husband of Ethel Maud Cockings, of Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex.


COCKLE

Panel 10, Column 2.

Ldg. Cook VICTOR HENRY WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/MX. 83393. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 29. Son of Henry and Olive Cockle; husband of Violet Cockle, of Newhaven, Sussex.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


COCKROFT

Addenda Panel.

Seaman JOHN WILLIE

LT/JX 373896. RN. Patrol Service. N.A.B. Whittington. 23rd October, 1944.

Notes or comments: 'N.A.B.' as yet unidentified


COCKSEDGE

Panel 16, Column 1.

Ldg. Steward WILLIAM HENRY

Trawler

LT/LX. 31623. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Austin. 24th June, 1944.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined the Northern Patrol, 1941 transferred to Iceland command for Russian convoys until December 1943, paid off and refitted, recomissioned May 1944, A/S escort at Op. Neptune, sunk by acoustic mine Seine Bay, Normandy (Toghill: Trawlers2)


COGGLE

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. CHARLES WILLIAM

Whaler

LT/KX. 111917. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942.

Notes or comments: 253 ton whaler hired as minesweeper March 1940, assigned to Russian Navy and lost on passage (capsized in heavy swell and pack ice, Barents Sea) 9th March 1942 (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COLBOURNE

Panel 1, Column 2.

Seaman RONALD MALCOLM

Trawler

LT/IX. 205000. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Adonis. 15th April, 1943. Age 23. Son of Ma1colm Edward Colbourne, and of Amelia Hill Colbourne, of Stanmore, Middlesex.

Notes or comments: Norwegian fishing vessel Nordhav 1, hired June 1940 after fall of Norway, converted to Aux. Patrol Vessel and renamed Avalon (Sept. 1940). June 1941 renamed Adonis and fitted with RDF, based at Ipswich. Torpedoed by E-boat off Lowestoft 15/4/43 (Toghill)


COLE

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WALTER EDWIN

LT/IX. 205395. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Minicoy. 14th May, 1941. Age 20. Son of WaIter George and Agnes Sarah Cole, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.


COLEMAN

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman PATRICK

Trawler

LT/IX. 207522. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 36. Son of William Iohn and Mary Ann Welsh Coleman; husband of Margaret Gagan Coleman, of Linlathen, Dundee.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 as minesweeper, joined the Harwich M/S Groups, torpedoed by E-boat while sweeping off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COLES

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman PHILLIP JOHN WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 19979A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Loch Inver. 22nd September, 1940.

Notes or comments: requisitioned October 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, basd at Harwich, sunk by mine off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2)


COLGATE

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ALFRED CULL

Trawler

LT/IX. 185355. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Roche Bonne. 7th April, 1941. Son of Alfred Thomas Colgate and Henrietta Daisy Colgate, of Seven Kings, Essex.

Notes and Comments: February 1940 and converted to minesweeper, sunk in air attack off Lizard (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COLLIER

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman VINCENT

Trawler

LT/IX. 193097. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Remillo. 27th February, 1941.

Notes and Comments: Hired April 1940 as dan layer, converted September 1940 to auxilliary patrol vessel based at Grimsby, sunk by mine off Humber (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COLLINS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman STANLEY

Trawler

LT/X. 21633 A. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Alalite. 10th November, 1940.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to A/S. joined 9th A/S Group at Devonport, sunk by mine off Plymouth breakwater (Toghill: Trawlers2)


COLLINSON

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. JOSEPH

Trawler

LT/KX. 105213. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Thomas Bartleft. 28th May, 1940. Son of George E. and Martha Collinson; husband of Henrietta Collinson, of West Hartlepool, Co. Durham.

Notes and Comments: Castle class, requisitioned in November 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk by 'friendly' British mine off Calais. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


COLLIS

Panel 13, Column 2.

P.O. Stew rd JACK BEAUMONT

Trawler

LT/LX. 27663. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COLQUHOUN

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ALEXANDER LYONEL

Motor Minesweeper

LT/KX. 529761. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. Age 24. Son of Alexander Turner Colquhoun and Margaret Jean Caldwell Colquhoun; husband of Violet Colquhoun, of Pitchcombe, Gloucestershire.

Notes and Comments: built by R. Irvin, Peterhead, sunk by mine off Normandy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


COMMONS

Panel 6, Column 2.

Ord. Sigmn. WILLIAM DOUGLAS

LT/JX. 190633. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Dunedin. 24th November, 1941. Son of Adin Commons, and of Martha Commons, of Mans­field, Nottinghamshire.


CONNELLY

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 205543. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941. Age 36. Son of Peter and Grace Connelly, of Dundee; husband of May S. H. Connelly, of Dundee.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


CONNOLLY

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman JOSEPH

Trawler

LT/JX. 285575. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 37. Son of Robert and Alice Ann Connolly, of Manchester.

Notes and Comments: ex Rylston, requisitioned October 1939 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted to minesweeper, 1943 sunk by Italian Submarine Acciaio off Algiers (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CONNOLLY

Panel 11, Column 1.

Skipper WILLIAM JOHN

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 29. Son of John Thomas Connolly and Edna Connolly; husband of Freda Connolly, of Fleet­wood, Lancashire.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


CONWAY

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman CHARLES WALTER

Trawler

LT/JX. 224375. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 30. Son of Charles William and Rose Conway; husband of Florence Ada Conway, of Hardwick, Northamp­tonshire.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


COOK

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Steward WALTER JAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 173555. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940.

Notes and Comments: 540 ton vessel hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by aircraft east of Copinsay, Orkneys (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COOK

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman HAROLD

Drifter

LT/177173. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Maida. 16th March, 1940. Age 35. Son of Margaret Cook, of West Gorton, Manchester.

Notes or comments: hired November 1939 as minesweeper and renamed Maida, sunk by mine off east coast Scotland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COOK

Panel 3, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. CHARLES HENRY

Trawler

LT/180339. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Thuringia. 28th May, 1940.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine in North Sea. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


COOK

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ERNEST ROYAL

Trawler

LT/JX. 217716. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941. Age 29. Son of John Spillman Cook and Emily Jane Cook, of King's Lynn, Norfolk; husband of Charlotte Elizabeth Cook, of King's Lynn.

Notes and Comments: Hired as auxilliary patrol vessel June 1940, sunk by mine in Humber off Spurn Head (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


COOK

Addenda Panel.

Second Hand REGINALD PETER LENNOX

LT/JX 203799. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Victory. 27th April, 1941. Age 24.


COOK

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman HORACE WILLIAM FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/JX. 280440. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 31. Son of Ernest and Beatrice Cook; husband of Ivy May Cook, of Dagenham, Essex.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


COOK

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman FRANCIS WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 280991. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Jura. 7th January, 1943.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched November 1941, deployed to the Mediterranean 1942, sunk by U-371 in Western Med. (Toghill: Trawlers1;Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COOK

Panel 16, Column 1.

Ldg. Cook FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/MX. 109570. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 20. Son of Frederick WaIter and Maggie Cook, of Roosegate, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: ex Belgian trawler converted in French minesweeper, seized at Southampton July 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted back to minesweeper and based on Humber, 1943 19th M/S Group at Grimsby, torpedoed by E-boat off the Humber (Toghill: Trawlers2)


COOK

Panel 13, Column 3.

Second Hand HERBERT WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 19516 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Transvaal. 18th November, 1944. Age 28. Son of Herbert William and Margaret Cook, of Hull; husband of Peggy Cook, of Hull.

Notes or comments: requisitioned December 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, 1942 converted to an 'Esso' and joined Mediterranean Fleet, 1944 left MF to return to UK, foundered on passage in gale in English Channel. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


COOK

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman JAMES FREDERICK

Whaler

LT/JX. 317370. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 28. Son of James Alfred and Florence Cook, of Morden, Surrey; husband of May Florence Cook, of Warningcamp, Sussex.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


COOMBER

Panel 17, Column 1.

Ord. Sigmn. ARTHUR FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/JX. 637506. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 19. Son of Frederick and Evelyn Coomber, of Romford, Essex.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


COOPER

Panel 1, Column 2.

Act. Sub-Lieut. JOHN CAM

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940. Age 22. Son of George Morton Cooper and Elizabeth Cooper, of Welland, Worcestershire.

Notes and Comments: 540 ton vessel hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by aircraft east of Copinsay, Orkneys (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COOPER

Panel 3, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. ROBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 183134. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 34. Son of Jack and Florence Cooper; husband of Violet Cooper, of Penmaenmawr, Caernarvonshire.

Notes or comments: Tree class, purchased December 1939, commissioned March 1940 and joined 19th A/S Strike Force in Orkneys, in Norwegian campaign April/May, escorting tanker from Tromso when sighted squadron comprising Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper and four destroyers. Sailed to meet flying battle ensign and lasted incredible 90 minutes before before being sunk by Hipper gunfire, four survivors (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COOPER

Panel 7, Column 2.

Cook DOUGLAS CLIFFORD

Drifter

LT/JX. 164687. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Devon County. 1st July, 1941. Age 18. Son of Sydney and Ethel Cooper, of Cobholm Island, Norfolk.


COOPER

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 222684. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Jasper. 1st December, 1942. Age 21. Son of William and Annie Cooper, of Bo'ness, West Lothian; husband of Janet Main Cooper, of Bo'ness.

Notes or comments: ex Balthasar, purchased for anti-submarine duties November 1935, sunk by E-boat torpedo in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COOPER

Panel 12, Column 1.

Sigmn. GERALD JOHN

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 247192. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 70. 24th September, 1943. Age 26. Son of Arthur George and Mabel Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk; husband of Matilda W. Cooper, of Notting Hill, London.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk believed by mine in Gulf of Taranto, Southern Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


COOPER

Panel 10, Column 3.

Lieut.-Comdr. JOHN HANDLEY

Trawler

RN.V.R H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 31. Son of Stanley W. and Bessie Cooper; husband of Audrey Cooper. RA.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COPLIN

Panel 1, Column 3. 

Second Hand FREDERICK

Trawler

LT/X., 19546 A. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940.

Notes or comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, based at Dover, U-boat to credit (U-16) 23rd October, torpedoed by E-boat off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CORDINER

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman THOMAS BUCHAN

Trawler

LT/X. 10315 S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Marsona. 4th, August, 1940. Age 22. Son of Alexander Buchan Cordiner and Jean Cordiner; husband of Margaret Cordiner, of Holyhead, Anglesey.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, sunk by mine off Cromarty (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CORK

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. FREDERICK LEONARD

Drifter

LT/KX. 109889. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Receptive. 3rd July, 1941.

Notes and Comments: April 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CORNFIELD

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 144042. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


COSTELLO

Panel 11, Column 2.

Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM

Motor Launch

LT/JX. 185969. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1154. 14th May, 1943. Age 21. Son of William and Norah Costello; husband of Sarah Costello, of Harrietsham, Kent.


COTTERELL

Panel 16, Column 2.

Asst. Steward JOHN HENRY

Trawler

LT/LX. 617645. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Austin. 24th June, 1944. Age 35. Son of John and Esther Cotterell; husband of Dons May Cotterell, of Southsea, Hampshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined the Northern Patrol, 1941 transferred to Iceland command for Russian convoys until December 1943, paid off and refitted, recomissioned May 1944, A/S escort at Op. Neptune, sunk by acoustic mine Seine Bay, Normandy (Toghill: Trawlers2)


COULL

Panel 1, Column 1.

Engineman JOSEPH

Drifter

LT/X. 350 ET. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Drifter Ray of Hope. 10th December, 1939. Age 43. Son of James and Catherine A. Cowl, of Buckie, Banffshire; husband of Jeannie Coull, of Buckie.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned November 1939 as minesweeper, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COULL

Panel 4, Column 3.

Skipper WILLIAM THOMPSON

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Ormonde. 16th February, 1941. Age 42. Son of Alexander and Jessie Coull, of Buckie, Banffshire; husband of Jeannie Coull, of Buckie.

Notes and Comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, November 1940 converted to minesweeper, sunk by air attack off east coast of Scotland Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


COULL

Panel 13, Column 1.

Ldg. Cook BERT

Trawler

LT/MX. 87679. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 29. Son of George and Jane Ann Coull; husband of Edith Christian Coull, of Torry, Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned February 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1942 coverted to minesweeper, torpedoed by E-boat whilst in tow off Beachy Head, English Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


COULTHARD

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. DAVID SNOWDON

Trawler

LT/JX. 226423. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942. Age 25. Son of Robert and Mary Coulthard, of Head's Nook, Cumberland.

Notes or comments: requisitioned in September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1942 on loan to USN from February and sunk in collision with SS Hebe off Georgetown, South Carolina. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


COUPE

Panel 15, Column 1.

Sigmn. NORMAN

Trawler

LT/JX. 236876. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COWELL

Panel 11, Column 2. 

Seaman MARTIN WILKINSON

LT/JX. 281786. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Gavotte. 21st April, 1943. Age 49. Son of Ruth Cowell; husband of Lily Cowell, of Preston, Lancashire.


COWIE

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN

Drifter

LT/1O9821. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ocean Sunlight. 13th June, 1940. Age 35. Son of Alexander and Jane Cowie, of Macduff, Banffshir ; husband of Christina McGregor Cowie, of Macduff.

Notes or comments: Hired for minesweeping duties November 1939, sunk by mine off Newhaven (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COWIE

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 142 SA. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Pelton. 23rd December, 1940. Age 36. Son of John and Jessie Cowie; husband of Beatrice Ann Cowie, of Bridge of Don, Aberdeen.

Notes and Comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, 1940 took part in telephone cable cutting operation between Germany and UK in North Sea, December torpedoed by E-boat off Great Yarmouth (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


COWIE

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 210634. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941. Age 25. Son of William and Elizabeth Cowie, of Buckie, Banff­shie.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, based at Grimsby, sunk by air attack off Ramsgate (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


COWIE

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman IAN

Whaler

LT/JX. 174565. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Santa. 23rd November, 1943. Age 23. Son of Alexander and Jeannie Cowie, of Helmsdale, Sutherlandshire.

Notes or comments: 355 ton Whaler requisitioned for minesweeping duties in October 1941 and lost to a mine west of Maddalena, Sardinia (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


COWIE

Panel 13, Column 3.

Second Hand JAMES STEWART

Trawler

LT/JX. 280162. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 27. Son of John and Elsie Cowie, of Buckie, Banffshire; husband of Maggie B. Cowie, of Portessie, Banffshire.

Notes or comments: Isles class, Ordered March 1943, launched December, completed March 1944 as A/S, took part in Op. Neptune, as Dan layer to 1st M/S Flotilla at Sword, sunk by Human torpedo off Ostend Toghill: Trawlers1)


COWLING

Panel 2, Column 1. .

Seaman JAMES BEAN

Trawler

LT/X. 21036 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Robert Bowen. 9th February, 1940. Age 21. Son of George and Clarissa Cowling, of Torry, Aberdeen.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, M/S Group Leader based at Aberdeen, in company with Fort Royal and Thomas Altoft when bombed by 2 he111's and sunk 20 miles NE Aberdeen (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COX

Panel 3, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. ALAN

Yacht

LT/JX. 185885. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Campeador V. 22nd June, 1940. Age 18. Son of William Robert and Mary Isabel Cox, of Whitby, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by mine off Portsmouth, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COX

Panel 10, Column 2.

Ldg. Steward THOMAS GUY

Trawler

LT/LX. 25527. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 21st January, 1942. Age 21. son of Thomas and Edith Cox; husband of Emma Mary Ann Cox, of Lee, London.

Notes or comments: French minesweeper seized at Southampton in July 1940, taken into RN as minesweeper, sunk by U-203 in Atlantic. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COX

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman FRANK LESLIE

Whaler

LT/JX. 179464., RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 23. Son of Frank and Frances Alice Cox, of Lincoln.

Notes or comments: 253 ton whaler hired as minesweeper March 1940, assigned to Russian Navy and lost on passage (capsized in heavy swell and pack ice, Barents Sea) 9th March 1942 (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


COX

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman CHARLES WILLIAM

Motor Launch

LT/JX. 219617. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1154. 14th May, 1943. Age 27. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Cox; husband of Alice Cox, of Rother­hithe, London.


COX

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ALBERT EDWARD

Barrage Balloon Vessel

LT/KX. 167057. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 30. Son of Albert Edward and Rose Cox, of Maidstone, Kent; husband of Joyce Irene Cox, of Maidstone.

Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin)


COX

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman ALBERT HENRY

Motor Launch

LT/JX. 281089. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1163. 4th January, 1945. Age 22. Son of Alonzo Bernard Cox, and of Annie Louisa Cox, of Southwark, London.

Notes or comments: completed December 1942, sunk by torpedo probably from surface craft, Mulat Island, NE Adriatic. (HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


CRABBE

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 110460. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


CRABTREE

Panel 7, Column 3.

Seaman Steward LESLIE

Drifter

LT/IX. 205735. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Jewel. 18th May, 1941.

Notes or comments: hired as minesweeper January 1940, sunk by mine in Belfast Lough (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRABTREE

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman GORDON

Trawler

LT/JX. 225731. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Jacinth. 12th January, 1943. Age 31. Son of George William and Mary Elizabeth Crabtree; husband of Edith Clara Crabtree, of Morecambe, Lancashire.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, 1940 converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine off Portsmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRACKNELL

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman LESLIE GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 225639 RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


CRAG

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman LEONARD GORDON

Trawler

LT/X. 20683 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Galena. 24th July, 1940. Age 20. Son of Alexandra Arthur and Kate Elizabeth Crag, of Hull.

Notes and Comments: Purchased August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 9th A/S Group at Dover, sunk by air attack off Dover (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRAG

Panel 5, Column 1.

Ldg. Sea. THOMAS HAROLD

Trawler

LT/X. 21661 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Remillo. 27th February, 1941.

Notes and Comments: Hired April 1940 as dan layer, converted September 1940 to auxilliary patrol vessel based at Grimsby, sunk by mine off Humber (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRAGG

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. FBANCIS

Trawler

LT/JX. 265126. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 18. Son of Peter and Elizabeth Cragg, of Liverpool.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


CRAIG

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 177131. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 26. Son of Adam and Agnes Craig; husband of Jenny Craig, of Girvan, Ayrshire.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 as minesweeper, joined the Harwich M/S Groups, torpedoed by E-boat while sweeping off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRAIG

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman ROBERT

Trawler

LT/JX. 288134. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Franc Tireur. 25th September, 1943. Age 39. Son of Joseph and IsabelIa Craig; husband of Margaret Craig, of Aberdeen.

Notes and Comments: hired for auxilliary patrol May 1940, converted for minwsweeping 1941, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Harwich (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRAIG

Panel 15, Column 1.

Ord. Tel. JAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 405377. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 20. Son of James and May Eleanor Craig, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRAIG

Panel 13, Column 3.

Skipper GEORGE

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRAINE

Panel 12, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. JOHN HENRY

Trawler

LT/JX. 400597. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned February 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1942 coverted to minesweeper, torpedoed by E-boat whilst in tow off Beachy Head, English Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CRAN

Panel 6, Column 3.

Engineman GEORGE JAMES

Trawler

LT/KX. 99936. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Strathborve. 6th September, 1941.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned August 1940 and coverted to minesweeper, joined 152nd M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by mine off Humber. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRANMER

Panel 17, Column 2.

Ch. Engineman HAROLD VERNON

Whaler

LT/KX. 98160. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 42. Son of Bernard and Annie Cranmer; husband of Hilda Jane Cranmer, of Stoneferry, Hull.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CRAWFORD

Panel 5, Column 1.

Second Hand JOHN NEVET

Drifter

LT/JX. 242443. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Bahram. 3rd April, 1941.

Notes or comments: Hired as harbour defence patrol craft 1940, sunk by mine off the Humber (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRAWFORD

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman ALEXANDER

Twin Screw Steamship

LT/JX. 222236. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Age 38. Son of William and Else Jane Crawford; husband of Mary Crawford, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

Notes or comments: 2292 ton steamship built for the Southern Railway Co. for their service Southampton/St. Malo (1300 passengers, mainly 1st class, 450 sleeping berths), hired June 1941 and Fleet Air Arm target vessel, sunk by mine off Aberdeen (HMSO BVLS 1939-45; PadStm.net)


CRAWLEY

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ERNEST HANSLEY

Trawler

LT/JX. 215721. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941. Age 30. Son of Thomas Robert and Annie Hansley Crawley, of Boston, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, based at Grimsby, sunk by air attack off Ramsgate (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


CRAWSHAW

Panel 11, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. JOHN

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Jura. 7th January, 1943. Age 22. Son of James Alfred Crawshaw, J.P., and Elsie Crawshaw, of Bury, Lancashire.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched November 1941, deployed to the Mediterranean 1942, sunk by U-371 in Western Med. (Toghill: Trawlers1;Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRESSEY

Panel 1, Column 1.

Seaman ARTHUR THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 166253. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Doon. 24th December, 1939. Age 24. Son of Arthur H. and Hannah Cressey, of Hull; husband of Muriel Cressey, of Hull.

Notes or comments: Hired August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, believed sunk by mine off Blyth (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CRESSWELL

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman LAWRENCE STANLEY

Trawler

LT/JX. 216200. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. Age 22. Son of Reginald Percy and Jane Mary Cresswell, of Basildon, Berkshire.

Notes or comments: French minesweeper seized at Southampton in July 1940, taken into RN as minesweeper, sunk by U-203 in Atlantic. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRIBBEN

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. WILLIAM JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 104255. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Adonis. 15th April, 1943. Age 27. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Cribben, of Deal, Kent; husband of Annie Patricia Cribben (nee Bailey), of Mill Hill, Deal.

Notes or comments: Norwegian fishing vessel Nordhav 1, hired June 1940 after fall of Norway, converted to Aux. Patrol Vessel and renamed Avalon (Sept. 1940). June 1941 renamed Adonis and fitted with RDF, based at Ipswich. Torpedoed by E-boat off Lowestoft 15/4/43 (Toghill)


CRICHTON

Panel 1, Column 1.

Seaman ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/X. 7989 C. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler James Ludford. 14th December, 1939. Age 31. Son of Roderick and Margaret Crichton, of Bayble, Isle of Lewis.


CRICKMER

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman PERCY MAYES

Trawler

LT/JX. 205728. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 23. Son of Percy Edmund and Gladys Marion Crickmer; husband of Iris Crickmer, of Leyton, Essex.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launches April 1943, torpedoed by E-boats whilst unbuttoning small convoy from the Bristol Channel to Plymouth, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


CRICKMORE

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman ALFRED STANLEY

Trawler

LT/JX. 184427. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Asama. 21st March, 1941.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939, converted for minesweeping and sunk by aircraft off Plymouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CRIMLIS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman RONALD

Trawler

LT/X. 21217A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 19. Son of Tom and Una Gladys Crimlis, of Hull.

Notes or comments: Purchased in RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 7th A/S Group at Gibraltar, sunk in collision with French liner Cheila East of Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CRINSON

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. ARTHUR EDWARD

Motor Minesweeper

LT/KX. 160753. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 257. 11th December, 1944. Age 39. Son of Edward T. and Mary C. Crinson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Lilian Crinson; of Newcastle-on-Tyne.


CRITTENDEN

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN LESLIE

Trawler

LT/KX. 103170. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 36. Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Arthur Crittenden, of Gravesend, Kent; husband of Bridy Gertrude Crittenden, of Denton, Gravesend.

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CROCKER

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 219631. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Remillo. 27th February, 1941. Age 31. Hus­band of Bella Crocker, of Torcross, Devon.'

Notes and Comments: Hired April 1940 as dan layer, converted September 1940 to auxilliary patrol vessel based at Grimsby, sunk by mine off Humber (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CROCKETT

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman BENJAMIN

Trawler

LT/X. 19660 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers. 2nd June, 1940. Age 20. Son of Edward and Margrate Crockett, of Nairn.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned August 1939 for mine-sweeping duties, commissioned in October and based at Dover. June 1940, in company with Westella and Saon, detected submarine and while making approach for depth charge attack struck mine. Westella going to assistance also struck mine and sank. (Toghill: Trawlers1). Anomaly - Location stated variously as North Sea for BR and Dunkirk for W (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


CROCKETT

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman GEORGE

Trawler

LT/X. 6002ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler River Clyde. 5th August, 1940.

Notes and Comments: ex Robert Cundy, requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk by mine off Aldeburgh (Toghill: Trawlers1/2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CROOK

Panel 9, Column 3.

Engineman EDWARD ALBERT HENRY

Trawler

LT/KX. 99823. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler AloueUe. 19th September, 1942. Age 23. Son of Edward and Dulcie May Crook, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: ex Esquimaux, hired as minesweeping trawler August 1939, sunk by U-552 off Portugal, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CROSBY

Panel 11, Column 1.

Lieut. JOHN RUTHERFORD

Trawler

Mentioned in Despatches. RNVR. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 25. Son of John C. and Janette Brechin Crosby; husband of Sheila Mary Somerville Crosby, of Troon, Ayrshire.

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CROSS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman KENNETH ROBERT RUSSELL

Trawler

LT/181828. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Comet. 30th September, 1940. Age 24. Son of Henry George and Mabel Cross, of Mutford, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: ex Tamura, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to Decoy vessel, sunk by mine aff Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CROSS

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman THOMAS JOSEPH

Trawler

LT/167148. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Comet. 30th September, 1940. Age 21. Son of Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth Cross, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: ex Tamura, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to Decoy vessel, sunk by mine aff Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2)


CROSS

Panel 7, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. JOSEPH GRANFIELD

Trawler

LT/JX. .RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Roche Bonne. 7th April, 1941. Son of Frederick Cross, and of Julia Cross, of Grand Falls, New­foundland.

Notes and Comments: February 1940 and converted to minesweeper, sunk in air attack off Lizard (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CROSTON

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman HARRY

Drifter

LT/IX. 167018. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ocean Sunlight. 13th June, 1940. Age 29. Son of Henry and Edith Annie Croston, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: Hired for minesweeping duties November 1939, sunk by mine off Newhaven (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CROTTY

Panel 16, Column 2.

Steward JAMES

Trawler

LT/LX 575929. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRUDEN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman STEWART CAMERON

Whaler

LT/JX. 222687. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 37. Son of Stewart Cameron Cruden and Isabella Simpson Cruden, of Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Notes or comments: 253 ton whaler hired as minesweeper March 1940, assigned to Russian Navy and lost on passage (capsized in heavy swell and pack ice, Barents Sea) 9th March 1942 (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CRUMP

Panel 2, Column 1.

Seaman JOSEPH RAYMOND

Trawler

LT/JX. 185698. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Dorado. 1st June, 1940. Age 19. Son of Richard J aIDes Crump and Florence Matilda Crump, of Hythe, Kent.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk May/June, torpedoed by U-boat/E-boat (references vary: Toghill U-boat, others E-boat) off Dunkirk. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CUDWORTH

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Cook STANLEY

Trawler

LT/JX. 173181. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sea King. 9th October, 1940. Age 36. Son of Cuthbert and Lily Cudworth; husband of Gertrude Annie Cudworth, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned for minesweeping duties in August 1939, joined 40th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by underwater explosion believed mine in Grimsby Roads (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CULLIMORE

Panel 7, Column 3.

Seaman ELIJAH

Shore Establishment

LT/JX. 201709. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Europa (lost in s.s. Aguila). 19th August, 1941. Son of Violet Maud Cullimore, of Elliston, Trinity Bay, New­foundland.

Notes and Comments: Europa was headquarters and central depot of RNPS at Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft.


CULLING

Panel 16, Column 2.

Skipper GEORGE JAMES

Whaler

RNR. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 37. Son of Arthur and Eliza Culling, of South Shields, Co. Durham; husband of Elizabeth Ann Culling, of South Shields.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CUMMINGS

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. WILLIAM THOMAS

Trawler

LT/KX. 124567. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ormonde. 16th February, 1941. Age 35. Husband of Olive Gertrude Cummings, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Notes and Comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, November 1940 converted to minesweeper, sunk by air attack off east coast of Scotland Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


CUMMINS

Panel 12, Column 3.

Ldg. Sto. ALFRED THOMAS

Trawler

LT/X. 4027 T. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 36. husband of Eliza Rhoda Cummins, of Gravesend, Kent. ,

Notes and Comments: built for minesweeping and anti-submarine duties, launched August 1940, sunk by Italian MTB in western Mediterranean (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CUNNINGHAM

Panel 17, Column 2.

Engineman THOMS

Whaler

LT/KX. 114609. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 36. Son of John and Harriet Cunningham; husband of Doris Cunningham, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: 328 ton whaler hired for anti-submarine duties March 1940, torpedoed by U-1022 off Reykjavik, Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


CUNNINGTON

Panel 7, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. ALFRED LAWRENCE

Trawler

LT/KX. 111046. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941. Age 26. Son of Harry and Dorothy Cunnington; husband of Irene Mary Cunnington, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, based at Grimsby, sunk by air attack off Ramsgate (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


CUREL

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. WILLIAM HENRY

Yacht

LT/KX. 103616. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Age 21. Son of William Henry and Agnes Curel, of Madeley, Shropshire; husband of Connie Curel, of Fulham, London.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN September 1939 as armed boarding vessel, sunk by U-374 off Gibraltar. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CURPHEY

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman KENNETH

Trawler

LT/JX. 315098. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 19. Son of Robert Curphey, and of Ivy Curphey, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: Hills class, launched November 1941 and completed as escort, joined 2nd A/S Group based at Freetown, torpedoed and sunk while escorting Gibraltar convoy by U-521 off Canary Isles, North Atlantic (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


CURRIE

Panel 10, Column 3.

Seaman THOMAS WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 280374. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. Age 29. Son of James and Fanny Currie, of Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland; husband of Alice Jane Currie, of Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: French minesweeper seized at Southampton in July 1940, taken into RN as minesweeper, sunk by U-203 in Atlantic. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2). Native of Newfoundland


CURRIE

Panel 15, Column 2.

Engineman JAMES

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/KX. 148979. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 31. Son of Andrew Lauder Currie and Isabella Currie, of Edinburgh; husband of Janet Currie, of Edinburgh.


CURTIS

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman SIDNEY CHARLES

Trawler

LT/JX. 317378. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 21. Son of Arthur William and Alice Dorothy Curtis, of Eltham, London.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched March 1942, sunk West Africa en route between Lagos and Freetown escorting tanker Litopia, believed by torpedo from U-68 (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


CUTHBERTSON

Panel 5, Column 1.

Second Hand HERBERT, DSM

Yacht

LT/JX, 185854, RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Age 34. Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Cuth­bertson, of Hull; husband of Robina Grace Cuthbertson, of Hull.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN September 1939 as armed boarding vessel, sunk by U-374 off Gibraltar. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


CUTTER

Panel 4, Column 3.

Skipper JAMES CHARLES

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Age 45. Son of William and Margaret Cutter; husband of Dora Cutter, of Penzance, Cornwall.

Notes or comments: Tree class admiralty trawler, taken into service May 1940 as minesweeper, sunk by mine off Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers1)


CUTTING

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand GEORGE

Trawler

LT/X. 289 SA. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Stella Dorado. 1st June, 1940. Son of Charles and Kate Alice Cutting; husband of Minnie E. R Cutting, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, 1940 took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk May/June, torpedoed by U-boat/E-boat (references vary: Toghill U-boat, others E-boat) off Dunkirk. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


DAFFERN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman ERIC lAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 228694. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Jasper. 1st December, 1942. Age 22. Son of I WaIter James Daffem and Elizabeth Daffem, of Chapel End, Warwickshire.

Notes or comments: ex Balthasar, purchased for anti-submarine duties November 1935, sunk by E-boat torpedo in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DAHLSTROM

Panel 6, Column 3.

Engineman KARL

Trawler

LT/KX. 114080. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


DALEY

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. THOMAS PAUL

LT/KX. 102093. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Hurworth. 22nd October, 1943. Age 37. Son of Thomas and Mary Daley, of Liverpool; husband of Ellen Daley, of Liverpool;


DALY

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. MAURICEJOSEPH

Trawler

LT/KX. 106306. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Relonzo. 20th January, 1941. Age 24. Son of Mary Daly.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned April 1939 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1940 converted to minesweeper, joined 136th M/S Group at Birkenhead, sunk by mine in Crosby Channel, Liverpool (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DANE

Panel 16, Column 3.

P.O. FREDERICK ERNEST

Trawler

LT/JX. 166321. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 39. Son of Isaac James Dane and Elizabeth Ann Dane, of Ludham, Norfolk; husband of Vera Gladys Dane, of Ludham, Norfolk.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


DANIEL

Panel 12, Column 2.

Lieut. RONALD CAMPBELL BLAIR ARNOLD

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 39. Husband of Dorothy Daniel, of Denham, Buckinghamshire.

Notes or comments: Tree class, purchased December 1939, commissioned March 1940 and joined 19th A/S Strike Force in Orkneys, in Norwegian campaign April/May, escorting tanker from Tromso when sighted squadron comprising Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper and four destroyers. Sailed to meet flying battle ensign and lasted incredible 90 minutes before before being sunk by Hipper gunfire, four survivors (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DARLOW

Panel 1, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. GEOFFREY ARNOLD RALPH

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Northern Rover. 5th November, 1939. Age 28. Son of Alfred and Agnes Darlow, of Wanstead, Essex.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, overdue between Iceland and Faroes whilst on passge, postwar records show sunk by U-59 (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


DASH

Panel 8, Column 3. .

Seaman JACK SIDNEY

Trawler

LT/JX. 261349. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stonehaven. 2nd October, 1942. Age 24. Son of Nellie Dash; husband of Hilda O. Dash, of Foxton, Cambridgeshire.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Eddystone (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DAVID

Panel 1, Column 3.

Second Hand WILLlAM DAVIES

Trawler

LT/180316. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940. Age 27. Husband of Hilda David, of Fleetwood, Lanca­shire.

Notes and Comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DAVIDSON

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman IVAN

Trawler

LT/JX. 231573. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 11th March, 1942. Age 27. Son of Frederick Rose Davidson and Millicent Davidson, of Prestwood, Buckinghamshire.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


DAVIDSON

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman JOHN

Trawler

LT/X. 18705 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Waterfly. 17th September, 1942. Age 25. Son of Daniel and Annie Davidson, of Burghead, Morayshire.

Notes or comments: ex Walpole, requisitioned September 1939 and converted for minesweeping, based at Kirkwall for sweeping in Scapa Flow, 1941 transferred to Dover and 46th M/S Group, sunk by air attack off Dungenness, English Channel. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DAVIDSON

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. WILLIAM KEDDIE

Whaler

LT/KX. 103400. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 23. Son of William and Margaret K. Davidson, of Tullibody, Glackmannanshire.

Notes or comments: recorded by CWGC as a trawler, recorded by Colledge as ex Norwegian whaler Kos XXIX, purchased August 1939 for anti-submarine duties, sunk by torpedo from E-boat off Plymouth in English Channel. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; warsailors.com)


DAVIDSON

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 196068. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 41. Son of Robert and Alice Davidson, of Norham, Northumber­land; husband of Ethel Agnes Davidson, of Norham.

Notes and Comments: ex Rylston, requisitioned October 1939 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted to minesweeper, 1943 sunk by Italian Submarine Acciaio off Algiers (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DAVIDSON

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN TURNER

Trawler

LT/KX. 112691. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 27. Son of Alexander and Magdalene Davidson, of Aberdeen; husband of Ada M. Davidson, of Torry, Aberdeen.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DAVIDSON

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman GEORGE GROAT GANSON

Landing Craft: Infantry (Large)

LT/IX. 206445. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. LCI.(L) 273. 17th March, 1944.

Notes or comments: ex USN craft available to RN under lend/lease, length 158, beam 23, 234/384 tons, carrying 188 troops (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


DAVIES

Panel 7, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. ALFRED HOWARD

Trawler

LT/KX. 108811. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941. Son of Mrs. E. M. Davies, of Maerdy, Glamorgan.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, based at Grimsby, sunk by air attack off Ramsgate (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


DAVIES

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. SIDNEY

Trawler

LT/KX. 111474. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941. Age 30. Son of Gwilym and Blodwen Davies, of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire; husband of Muriel Davies, of Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire.

Notes or comments: hired as auxilliary patrol vessel May 1940, based at Grimsby, sunk by air attack off Ramsgate (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


DAVIES

Panel 6, Column 2.

Ord. Sigmn. WILLIAM THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 204989 RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ormonde. 16th February, 1941.

Notes or comments: duplicate entry, real name (and recorded on memorial as) William Thomas Davies, served as Ord. Sigmn. William Thomas. Vessel: Requisitioned November 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, November 1940 converted to minesweeper, sunk by air attack off east coast of Scotland Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


DAVIES

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 207704. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 21. Son of Thomas and Margaret Davies, of Liverpool; husband of Jessie Davies, of Liverpool.

Notes or comments: requisitioned August 1939 and converted to armed boarding vessel based at Kirkwall for contraband patrols, 1942 converted for anti-submarine duties, sent on loan to U.S. Navy but sunk on passage by U-94 off Grand Banks, North Atlantic (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2)


DAVIES

Panel 8, Column 1.

Sub-Lieut. FRANCIS PENNELL STEPHENS

Trawler

RNVR. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 23. Son of Lieut.-Comdr. F. E. C. Davies, RNR, and Ethel Louisa Davies.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


DAVIES

Panel 10, Column 2.

Cook LAWRENCE

Whaler

LT/MX. 84456. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. Age 26;

Notes or comments: ex Kos XIX, a Norwegian whaler, hired for anti-submarine duties as Cocker September 1941, torpedoed and sunk by E-boat off Tobruk, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; updated by Norfleet.net)


DAVIES

Panel 12, Column 2.

Engineman THOMAS WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/X. 6134E.S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 34. Son of Thomas Archibald and Frances Eleanor Davies, of Hull; husband of Ida Davies, of Hull.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 as minesweeper, joined the Harwich M/S Groups, torpedoed by E-boat while sweeping off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DAVIES

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman BARRY DOWNING

Motor Launch

LT/JX.­ 191696. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1226. 7th March, 1944. Age 23. Son of David and Eva Elizabeth Davies, of Swansea.


DAVIES

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN JAMES

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/JX. 373139. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 19. Son of John James Davies and HannaII Davies, of Liverpool.


DAVIS

Panel 7, Column 3.

Lieut. RUSSELL BRANSBY

Trawler

RNR. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 29. Son of Clement Russell Dixon Davis and Edith Beatrice bixon Davis; husband of Elizabeth Heuliven Davis, of Caldy, Cheshire.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


DAVIS

Panel 11, Column 1.

Lieut. LESLIE EDWARD

Motor Minesweeper

RNVR. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 70. 24th September, 1943. Age 26. Son of Edward and Charlotte Davis.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk believed by mine in Gulf of Taranto, Southern Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


DAWSON

Panel 11, Column 2.

Ldg. Sea. GEORGE JAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 183781. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 34. Son of George and Margaret Dawson; husband of Mary Dawson, of Barrow-in-Fumess, Lancashire.

Notes or comments: Hills class, launched November 1941 and completed as escort, joined 2nd A/S Group based at Freetown, torpedoed and sunk while escorting Gibraltar convoy by U-521 off Canary Isles, North Atlantic (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


DEAL

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman FREDERICK THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 222267. RN. Patrol Service.. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 22. Son of James and Beatrice Deal; husband of Sybil Bertha Deal, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: Hills class, ordered 1941, completed as Anti-Submarine vessel and commissioned May 1942, one of first trawlers fitted with radar, employed on convoy duties, transferred to West African Escort Force at Freetown and to 2nd A/S Grp based there, in company with Inkpen and Turcoman was escorting French vessel 'St. Bastile' off Lagos when torpedoed and sunk by U-547, 15 survivors. (Toghill: Trawlers1)


DEAN

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman RAYMOND ARTHUR CHARLES, DSM

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 175049, RN. Patrol Service, H.M. Motor Minesweeper 69. 5th November, 1944. Age 24. Son of Charles Richard and Ivy Gertrude Dean, of Worthing, Sussex; husband of Beatrice Kathleen Dean.


DEANS

Panel 13, Column 1.

Sto. 2nd Cl. CHARLES STUART IMRIE

Motor Minesweeper

LT/KX. 137326. RN. Patrol Service. HM Motor Minesweeper 70. 24th September, 1943. Age 20. Son of Margaret Deans, of Glasgow.

Notes and Comments: built by Richard Ironworks, Lowestoft, sunk believed by mine in Gulf of Taranto, Southern Italy (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45)


DEEPROSE

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman FREDERICK THOMAS

Trawler

LT/JX. 638473. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 36. Son of Alfred and Louise Deeprose, of Bermond­sey, London; husband of Alice Deeprose, of Bermondsey, London.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DELL

Panel 2, Column 2.

Seaman THOMAS

Trawler

LT/X. 21103 A. RNR. (PatrolService). H.M. Trawler Marsoma. 4th August, 1940. Age 20. Son of W. F. and Mary A. Dell, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, sunk by mine off Cromarty (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DELL

Panel 11, Column 2.

Seaman DENNIS WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 436327. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Foster­son of J. Frederick Wheeler, of Leamington, Warwickshire.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned September 19939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, converted for anti-submarine duties March 1941, sunk by broken free friendly mine north of Ireland (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


DENNANT

Panel 4, Column 2.

Seaman Steward ARTHUR GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 165944. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940.. Age 18. Son. of Harry George and Betsy Sussanah Dennant, of Blundeston, Suffolk.

Notes or comments: Purchased in RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 7th A/S Group at Gibraltar, sunk in collision with French liner Cheila East of Gibraltar (Toghill: Trawlers2)


DENNEY

Panel 7, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. RICHARD PHILLIP

Trawler

LT/KX. 120046. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941. Age 25., Son of Edward and Lily Eliza Denney, of Welling, Kent; husband of Ivy May Denney, of Welling.

Notes or comments: ex Melbourne, purchased into RN November 1935 (one of Gem Group) for anti-submarine duties, 1940 based at Portland, took part in Op. Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk, 1941 sunk in collision with battleship HMS Rodney off the Clyde. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1)


DENT

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman PERCY

Trawler

LT/JX. 225685. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 23. Son of William Charles and Fannie Laurie Dent, of West Wittering, Sussex.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


DERAIMO

Panel 15, Column 3.

Sto. NORMAN PHILIP

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/JX. 154703. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 27. Son of Annie Deraimo, of Hendon, Middlesex.


DERRICK

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. FREDERICK LAURENCE

Trawler

LT/JX. 108065. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941. Age 23. Son of William George Derrick, and of Florence Mabel Derrick, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned May 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, Janury 1941 converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 31st A/S Group at Gibraltar, sank U-111 off Teneriffe October, torpedoed U-374 off Gibraltar (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2).


DEVONALD

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN EDWIN

Drifter

LT/KX. 99905. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Reed. 7th November, 1940. Age 25. Son of Edwin and Martha Elizabeth Devonald.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned September 1939 as minesweeper, converted to auxilliary patrol vessel August 1940, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DEVONALD

Panel 15, Column 2.

Engineman WILLIAM ALLAN

Trawler

LT/X. 6063 ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 27. Son of Edwin and Martha Devonald; hus­band of Gwendoline May Devonald, of Hakin, Pembrokeshire.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DEWAR

Panel 7, Column 1.

Sto. GEORGE BOTHWICK

Trawler

LT/KX. 124543. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 33. Son of Archibald and Lindsay Dewar, of Crail, Fife; husband of Annie S. Dewar, of Crail.

Notes or comments: Belgian fishing vessel, hired August 1940 and converted to A/S, sunk in air attack in Western Approaches, CGWC record date as both 21/1/41 and 21/2/41, all other references record as 13/2/41 (Toghill: Trawlers2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


DEWICK

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman ROYSTON REGINALD

Trawler

.LT/JX. 534720. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 18. Son of Reginald and Gertrude K. Dewick, of Gloucester.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DEXTER

Panel 12, Column 2. .

Engineman JOHN WILLIAM

Special Service Vessel

LT/KX. 108964. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fidelity. 1st January, 1943. Age 31. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dexter; husband of Elizabeth A. Dexter, of King's Lynn, Norfolk.

Notes or comments: Ex French Le Rhin, the 2456 ton merchant vessel was taken into service as an armed decoy ship (at time of loss 4 x 4" guns, 4 x 21" torpedo tubes, two aircraft, one MTB - 105), with identity concealed, to combat surface attack by submarine but was torpedoed 30/12/42 by U-435 and sunk near Azores (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WWII)


DIBB

Panel 12, Column 3.

Sto. OLIVER

Trawler

LT/KX. 109064. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Son of Oliver and Louisa Dibb; husband of Phyllis May Dibb, of Ponte­fract, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DICK

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman JOHN ROWAN

Trawler

LT/JX. 224890. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 32. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Dick, of Girvan, Ayrshire; husband of Mary Ann Dick, of Girvan.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


DICK

Panel 15, Column 2.

Engineman JOHN GEORGE MORRISQN NOBLE

Trawler

LT/X. 4069 T. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Vidonia. 7th October, 1944. Age 40. Son of James and Elsie Dick; husband of Elizabeth Dick, of Inverness.


DICKERSON

Panel 6, Column 3.

Engineman ROBERT WILFRED BARR

Minelayer

LT/KX, 99065. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


DICKS

Panel 10, Column 3. 

Ord. Sea. THOMAS MAXWELL

Trawler

LT/JX. 201998. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 28. Son of Edward and Ida Dicks, of Harbour Buffett, Placentia Bay, New­foundland.

Notes or comments: (on loan to U.S. Navy) Purchased as anti-submarine trawler August, 1939, sunk by U-boat off Cape Lookout, North Carolina (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2).


DICKSON

Panel 3, Column 2.

Engineman PETER

Drifter

LT/KX. 101616. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ocean Sunlight. 13th June, 1940. Husband of Elizabeth Montgomery Dickson, of Cockenzie, East Lothian..

Notes or comments: Hired for minesweeping duties November 1939, sunk by mine off Newhaven (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DICKSON

Panel 2, Column 2.

Seaman DAVID WEBSTER

Trawler

LT/JX. 177074. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sea King. 9th October, 1940. Age 21. Son of J ames and Elizabeth Webster Dickson, of Broughty Ferry, Dundee.

Notes or comments: requisitioned for minesweeping duties in August 1939, joined 40th M/S Group at Grimsby, sunk by underwater explosion believed mine in Grimsby Roads (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DICKSON

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 299784. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944.

Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DIGBY

Panel 6, Column 3.

Engineman HUBERT

Trawler

LT/KX. 87956. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lincoln City. 21st February, 1941.

Notes or comments: Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by air attack off Faroes (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DIGNAN

Panel 7, Column 2.

Sto. 2nd Cl. THOMAS

Trawler

LT/KX.­ 120045. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Remillo. 27th February, 1941. Age 26. Son of Patrick and Margaret Dignan, of Lochore, Fife.

Notes and Comments: Hired April 1940 as dan layer, converted September 1940 to auxilliary patrol vessel based at Grimsby, sunk by mine off Humber (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DIVERS

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. WALLACE

Trawler

LT/X. 1O2705S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Thuringia. 28th May, 1940. Adopted son of WiIIiam and Alice Divers; husband of E. Divers, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine in North Sea. (Colledge: Ship RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2)


DIXON

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman JAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 299794. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alouette. 19th September, 1942. Age 21. Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Dixon, of Culroy, Ayrshire.

Notes or comments: ex Esquimaux, hired as minesweeping trawler August 1939, sunk by U-552 off Portugal, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DIXON

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman THOMAS WILLIAM

LT/JX. 696596. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Nabaron. 10th October, 1945. Age 21. Son of Thomas and Susanna Dixon, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.


DOBSON

Panel 8, Column 1.

Skipper CYRIL WILFRED

Shore Establishment

RNR. H.M.S. Canada. 24th September, 1942.

Notes or comments: HMS Canada was RN. shore establishment at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, commissioned 1/8/1942. (Warlow: Shore Est. RN). Skipper Arthur Baker, Skipper Cyril Wilfred Dobson, Skipper Lieut. James Noble Hall, Skipper Lieut. Frederick Leonard Stather, Skipper Peter Thomson, Skipper Henry James Wink DSM, all shown as in HMS Canada, all lost on the same date. (CWGC)


DOCHERTY

Panel 3, Column 3.

Sto. HUGH

Trawler

LT/KX. 107509. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940.

Notes and Comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DOCHERTY

Panel 12, Column 1.

Sigmn. CHARLES CECIL

Whaler

LT/JX. 298189. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Santa. 23rd November, 1943. Age 22. Son of Francis and Maud Elizabeth Docherty.

Notes or comments: 355 ton Whaler requisitioned for minesweeping duties in October 1941 and lost to a mine west of Maddalena, Sardinia (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45)


DOCHERTY

Panel 11, Column 3.

Seaman JOHN

Trawler

LT/JX. 228183. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943.

Notes or comments: Requisitioned February 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1942 coverted to minesweeper, torpedoed by E-boat whilst in tow off Beachy Head, English Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2)


DODD

Panel 11, Column 2.

Ldg. Sea. THOMAS JAMES

Trawler

LT/X. 21273 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Jacinth. 12th January, 1943. Age 28. Son of Waiter and Margaret J. Dodd; husband of Mary Dodd, of Fleetwood, Lanca­shire.

Notes and Comments: Requisitioned August 1939 and converted to Armed Boarding Vessel, 1940 converted for anti-submarine duties, sunk by mine off Portsmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DODD

Panel 13, Column 3.

Skipper Lieut. HENRY EDWARD

Trawler

RD. RN.R. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 49. Son of Henry Edward and Agnes Dodd; husband of Annie EIisa Dodd, of St. Thomas, Swansea.

Notes and Comments: Purchased for anti-submarine duties August 1939, joined 17th A/S Group at Swansea, 1940 transferred to Portsmouth as Group Leader, 1944 Op. Neptune as A/S escort, sunk by air attack off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DODSWORTH

Panel 2, Column 2.

Seaman HARRY

Trawler

D/JX. 167081. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940. Age 27. Son of Henry and Ada Dodsworth, of Hull; husband of Alice Dodsworth, of Hull.

Notes and Comments: 540 ton vessel hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by aircraft east of Copinsay, Orkneys (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DOIG

Panel 17, Column 2.

Engineman JAMES

Motor Launch

LT/KX. 154283. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1226. 4th October, 1945. Age 23.


DOLEMAN

Panel 6, Column 1. 

Ord. Sea. JOHN

Drifter

LT/JX. 210951. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Thistle. 8th May, 1941. Age 28. Son of James and. Elizabeth Doleman, of Amble, Northumberland.

Notes and Comments: aka Thistle V, requisitioned April 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, September 1940 as examination vessel, sunk by mine off Lowestoft. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


DONLAN

Panel 11, Column 3.

Seaman ALBERT

Motor Minesweeper

LT/JX. 277821. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 103. 16th November, 1943. Age 22. Son of Joseph and Polly Donlan, of Derby.


DONN

Panel 17, Column 2.

Engineman ALEXANDER

Trawler

LT/KX. 116027. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 38. Son of David and Elizabeth Donn, of Cullen, Banffshire; husband of Jessie P. Donn, of Cullen.

Notes and Comments: 560 ton Lake class, launched June 1939 and purchased August 1939 for minesweeping duties, sunk by torpedo from U-1203 in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


DONNELLY

Panel 6, Column 1.

Ord. Sea. JAMES

Trawler

LT/JX. 253664. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Age 25. Son of James and Catherine Donnelly, of Gateshead, Co. Durham; husband of Isabella Donnelly, of Gateshead.

Notes or comments: 627 ton trawler purchased November 1935 (ex Mavis Rose) and converted for anti-submarine duties. 6th August 1941 escorting convoy FS69, off course, grounded and wrecked on Haisborough (Happisburgh) Sands off Cromer. (Lenton/Colledge; Toghill; Foynes)


DONNELLY

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 99831. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 23. Son of James and Catherine Donnelly, of Possilpark, Glasgow.

Notes or comments: purchased in RN in August 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined 12th A/S Strike Force at Belfast, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, 1941 joined 41st A/S Group at Iceland, torpedoed by U-701 off Iceland. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2)


DONOVAN

Panel 4, Column 1.

Sto. 2nd Cl. JOHN

Trawler

LT/KX. 107606. RN. Patrol Service, H.M. Trawler Waveflower. 22nd October, 1940. Age 28. Son of James and Ellen Donovan, of West Croydon, Surrey.

Notes or comments: purchased into RN and converted to minesweeper 1939, sunk by mine off Aldeburgh October 1940. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DORES

Panel 11, Column 3.

Seaman ANDREW HASTIE

Motor Launch

LT/JX. 190083. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1154.14th May, 1943. Age 32. Son of Andrew Thomson Dores and Elizabeth Veitch Dores, of Dunbar, East Lothian; husband of Janet Dores, of Dunbar.


DORRAN

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman JOHN, DSM

Barrage Balloon Vessel

LT/JX. 207450, RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 32. Son of Frederick John and Annie Dorran, of Bradford, Yorkshi!"e.

Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin)


DORRELL

Panel 5, Column 2.

Seaman WILLIAM ROY STEPHEN

Minelayer

LT/JX. 191697. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 20. Son of William and Alice Frederica Dorrell, of Leicester.

Notes or comments: An ex Royal Dutch Navy minelayer taken over by Royal Navy on 14th March 1941, apparently in use as an Anti Aircraft convoy leader, and lost to a mine in the Thames Estuary near the Girdler Light Vessel (Foynes: Battle E Coast; dutchfleet.net)


DOUGAL

Panel 2, Column 2.

Seaman DAVID

Trawler

LT/JX. 215822. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Inver. 22nd September, 1940. Age 26. Son of David and Jessie Dougal; husband of Alice Charlotte Dougal, of South Shields, Co. Durham.

Notes or comments: requisitioned October 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, basd at Harwich, sunk by mine off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2)


DOUGAN

Panel 8, Column 3.

Seaman HENRY

Trawler

LT/JX. 280935. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 47. Son of Bernard and Jane Dougan; husband of Elizabeth Dougan, of Harrison, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, torpedoed by U-701 south of Iceland (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers2; U-boat.net)


DOUTHWAITE

Panel 10, Column 1.

Sto. WALTER HENRY

Trawler

LT/KX. 100314. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942. Son of James and Ada Douthwaite; husband of Freda Douthwaite, of Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire.

Notes or comments: Shakespearean class, ordered December 1939, launched October 1940, completed as A/S, 1941 joined 1st M/S-A/S Group at Freetown as convoy escort, torpedoed by U-201 off Freetown (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers1).


DOW

Panel 11, Column 3.

Seaman WILLIAM

Trawler

LT/JX. 242822. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 22. Son of David and Isabella Shepherd Dow, of Dysart, Fife.

Notes and Comments: ex Rylston, requisitioned October 1939 as auxilliary patrol vessel, 1941 converted to minesweeper, 1943 sunk by Italian Submarine Acciaio off Algiers (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DOWNIE

Panel 2, Column 2.

Seaman GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 215762. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Inver. 22nd September, 1940. Age 26. Son of George and Mary Downie, of Rosehearty, Aber­deenshire.

Notes or comments: requisitioned October 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, basd at Harwich, sunk by mine off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2)


DOWNIE

Panel 16, Column 3.

Seaman JOHN

British Yard Minesweeper

LT/JX. 258912. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2210. 11th July, 1945. Age 23. Son of John and Jemima Downie, of Dundee.


DOYLE

Panel 9, Column 2.

Ord. Sea. JOHN PARR

Trawler

LT/JX. 354922. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stonehaven. 2nd October, 1942.

Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by E-boat torpedo off Eddystone (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DRAYTON

Panel 4, Column 1.

Sto. 2nd Cl. WILLIAM FREDERICK AUGUSTUS

Trawler

LT/KX. 108062. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fleming. 24th July, 1940. Age 19. Son of Frederick William and Sarah Ann Drayton; husband of Gertrude Drayton, of Gelligaer, Glamorgan.

Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, sunk by air attack in the Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DRISCOLL

Panel 12, Column 2.

Ch. Engineman JAMES

Trawler

LT/KX. 103397. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 23. Son of Daniel and Catherine Driscoll, of Kennington, London.

Notes or comments: Hills class, launched November 1941 and completed as escort, joined 2nd A/S Group based at Freetown, torpedoed and sunk while escorting Gibraltar convoy by U-521 off Canary Isles, North Atlantic (Toghill: Trawlers1; u-boat.net)


DRONFIELD

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman ALBERT J0HN

Motor Launch

LT/JX. 382618. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1380. 1st May, 1944. Age 21. Son of John and Ada Dronfield, of Eyam, Derbyshire.


DROVER

Panel 7, Column 3.

Ord. Sea. WILLIS

Yacht

LT/JX. 225706. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Viva II. 8th May, 1941. Age 19. Son of. George and Susie Drover, of Hodge's Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.

Notes or comments: hired September 1939 as an anti-submarine vessel, sunk by air attack off north coast of Cornwall. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45). Native of Newfoundland


DRYBURGH

Panel 11, Column 3.

Seaman GEORGE

Trawler

LT/JX. 277468. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Jura. 7th January, 1943.

Notes and Comments: Isles class, launched November 1941, deployed to the Mediterranean 1942, sunk by U-371 in Western Med. (Toghill: Trawlers1;Colledge: Ships RN Vol2)


DRYDEN

Panel 14, Column 1.

Seaman THOMAS RUTHERFORD

Trawler

LT/JX. 401929. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 20. Son of John R and Elizabeth Dryden, of Bolden Colliery, Co. Durham.

Notes and Com