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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,
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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.
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there will doubtless still be some errors. If any are spotted please
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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?) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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BLADE | Panel 5, Column 2. |
Seaman LESLIE ROBERT | |
LT/JX. 241762. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Ouzel. 3rd November, 1941. Age 31. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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'. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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CATON | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Seaman HENRY EDWARD | Motor Launch |
LT/JX. 181775. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1226. 4th October, 1945. |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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COOK | Addenda Panel. |
Second Hand REGINALD PETER LENNOX | |
LT/JX 203799. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Victory. 27th April, 1941. Age 24. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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; |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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. |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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 |
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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) |
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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. |
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