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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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The black text in the lists is taken from the
original Commonwealth War Graves Commission Register,
issued as a bound volume and retained by the RNPS Associaton office.
Much of the blue text at the end of many records is as a result
of further research and the source of the information
is given in brackets.
Details have been checked and re-checked but
there will doubtless still be some errors. If any are spotted please
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GRANTHAM | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Asst. Cook GEORGE HENRY | Trawler |
LT/MX. 94755. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tranquil. 16th June, 1942. |
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GRATION | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Ch. Engineman JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/273 ED. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Thuringia. 28th May, 1940. Age 59. Husband of Annie Gration, of Buckford, Buckie, Banffshire. |
| 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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GRAVES | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Ldg. Steward BERNARD | Whaler |
LT/LX. 30051. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Thorbryn. 19th August, 1941. Age 19. Son of Fred and Florence Graves, of Bassingham, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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GRAY | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman ALFRED SAMUEL RIX | Drifter |
LT/X. 5972ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Drifter Boy Andrew. 9th November, 1941. Age 31. Son of Robert and Mary Gray, of Aberdeen; husband of Elizabeth Gray, of Aberdeen. |
| 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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GRAY | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Second Hand JOHN THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 265241. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. |
| 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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GRAY | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman JAMES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 131031. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 38. Son of WiIliam and Isabella Gray; husband of Jessie Gray, of Torry, Aberdeen. |
| 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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GREEN | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Skipper WILLIAM | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. |
| 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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GREEN | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Second Hand WESLEY GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 180314. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tamarisk. 12th August, 1940. Age 29. Son of Wesley G. and Leah Louisa Green, of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. |
| 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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GREEN | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman ALFRED ERNEST ROBERT | Drifter |
LT/KX. 101719. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Thistle. 8th May, 1941. Age 21. Son of Ralph and Dorothy Green, of Filby, Norfolk. |
| 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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GREEN | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. FRANCIS VICERY | Minelayer |
LT/KX. 101043. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 23. Son of Thomas and Agnes Green, of Market Harborough, Leicestershire. |
| 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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GREEN | Panel 10, Column 3. |
Ord. Sea. WILLIAM JACOB | Whaler |
LT/JX. 280007. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. Son of George and Julia Green of Safe Harbour, Bonavista Bay, 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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GREEN | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Ord. Tel. HAROLD REGINALD DENNIS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 405478. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 20. Son of Alfred George and Alice Green, of Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire. |
| 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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GREENAWAY | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman JAMES | Whaler |
LT/KX. 148741. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Santa. 23rd November, 1943. Age 36. Son of Edwin Joseph and Hannah Greenaway; husband of Alison Greenaway, of Port Tennant, Swansea. |
| 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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GREENHAM | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. ALBERT WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 156663. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 20. Son of William Frederick and Alberta Olive Greenham, of New Bamet, 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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GREENING | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Seaman ALFRED | Trawler |
D /JX. 170490. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sedgefly. 14th December, 1939. Age 20. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for ant-submarine duties, sunk by mine of Tyne (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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GREENLAW | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. CHARLES THORNTON MENNIE | Auxilliary A.A. Vessel |
LT/KX. 152917. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Glen Avon. 2nd September, 1944. Age 22. Son of William Crombie Greenlaw and Mary Elizabeth Greenlaw, of Aberdeen. |
| Notes or comments: Requisitioned as a Paddle Minesweeper, 509 tons, and converted to Auxilliary Anti-Aircraft vessel in May, 1942, foundered in a gales Seine Bay (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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GREENWOOD | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. JAMES HENRY | Whaler |
LT/JX.231793. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. Age 27. Son of George William and Emma Greenwood, of Hackney, London. |
| 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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GREGG | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. JOHN THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/KX. 116566. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 27. Son of George and Rachel Gregg, of Kingswinford, Staffordshire. |
| 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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GREGG | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Seaman JOHN THOMAS | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 281355. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 68. 4th February, 1945. Age 24. Son of T. H. and Ann Gregg, of Annfield Plain, Co. Durham. |
| 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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GREGGOR | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman GEORGE ILLUSTRIOUS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 170712. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Sirius. 25th September, 1940. Age 25. Son of Benjamin and Margaret Greggor, of Peel, Isle of Man. |
| 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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GREGORY | Panel 16, Column 1. |
Cook IVOR JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/MK. 109491. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Vidonia. 7th October, 1944. Age 28. Son of Joseph Edward and Elizabeth Gregory, of Hyde, Cheshire; husband of Zeena Gregory. |
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GREGSON | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Skipper WILLIAM | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Charles Boyes. 25th May, 1940. Age 37. |
| 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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GREIG | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Sto. DAVID | Trawler |
LT/KX. 141716. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cyclone. 2nd July, 1945. Age 22. Son of John Strangways Greig and Janet Scott Greig, of Leslie, Fife. |
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GRENFELL | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Lieut. - Comdr.GEOFFREY SEYMOUR | Trawler |
RN. H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 42. Son of Riversdale Francis John and Cecil Blanche Grenfell; husband of Anne Catherine Tredick Grenfell. |
| 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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GREY | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Act. Sub-Lieut. GEORGE BRIAN | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Northern Rover. 5th November, 1939. Son of George Edward Guthrie Grey and Zaidee Lauriston Cuthbert Grey, of Bedford. |
| 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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GRIFFIN | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/KX. 105074. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Milford Earl. 8th December, 1941. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Griffin; husband of Muriel Griffin, of Whitby, Yorkshire. |
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GRIFFITHS | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Ord. Seaman Steward CLIFFORD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 199691. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941. Age 21. Son of Richard Griffiths, and of Phyllis Griffiths, of South Kirkby, Yorkshire. |
| 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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GRIFFITHS | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. JOHN SPIERS | Trawler |
LT/KX. 99841. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 22. Son of Donald and Catherine Spiers Griffiths, of Halfway, Lanarkshire; husband of Agnes Griffiths. |
| 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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GRIFFITHS | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman WILLIAM THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 203806. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 28. Son of Lewis and Grace Griffiths, of Holyhead, Anglesey; husband of Elizabeth Griffiths, of Holyhead. |
| 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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GRIFFITHS | Panel 17, Column 3. |
Ldg. Cook. FREDERICK WALTER HENRY | Trawler |
LT/MX. 87803. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 30. Son of Frederick and Maggie Griffiths, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Melita Gladys Griffiths, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
| 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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GRONDLAND | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. BIRGER SKIMGRIMSEN | Whaler |
LT/KX. 116044. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Thorbryn. 19th August, 1941. Age 30. Son of Skimgrim K. Grondland and Birgit (nee Anderesen); husband of Borgny Grondland, of Skien, Norway. |
| 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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GROVES | Panel 10, Column 3. |
Seaman FREDERICK JAMES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 211473. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. Son of Alfred and Amelia Groves, of Bonavista, 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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GRUNDY | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman CLIFFORD | Trawler |
LT/KX. lG3355. 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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GUEST | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Sto. INSULL CHARLES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 154627. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 22. Son of Maurice Lenaard Guest and Alice Maud Guest, of Bristol. |
| 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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GULLY | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman RONALD ASHLEY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 402802. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 19. Son of Albert Victor and Elizabeth Gully, of Bow, London. |
| 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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GURR | Panel 10, Column 3. |
Steward DA VID HAROLD | Whaler |
LT/LX. 27667. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sotra. 29th Japuary, 1942. Age 20. Son of David and Kate Gurr, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (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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GURR | Panel 14, Column 3. |
Ord. Sea. ALBERT EDWARD | Whaler |
LT/JX. 426347. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Maaloy. 27th March, 1944. Age 19. Son of William and A. S. Gurr, of Brighton, Sussex. |
| 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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GWILLIAM | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman WILLIAM JOHN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 99971. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 35. Son of Thomas and Alice GwiIliam; husband of Beatrice Elizabeth Gwilliam, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. |
| 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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HAGGART | Panel 7, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. MARTIN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 144067. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Phineas Beard. 8th December, 1941. |
| 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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HALE | Panel 4, Column 1. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. ALEXANDER JAMES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 103401. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 31. Son of Mary Ann Hale, of Brixton, London. |
| 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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HALL | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. JEFFREY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 179321. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Argyllshire. 1st June, 1940. Age 20. Son of Arthur and Edith Eleanor Hall. |
| 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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HALL | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. RONALD | Yacht |
LT/KX. 104368. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Age 23. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hall, of Marsden, Yorkshire. |
| 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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HALL | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. BRUCE | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Son of George Henry Hall, M.P., and of Margaret Hall, of Penrhiwceiber, 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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HALL | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Skipper Lieut. JAMES NOBLE | Shore Establishment |
RNR. H.M.S. Canada. 24th September, 1942. Age 30. Son of William A. and Anne Hall, of Edinburgh; husband of Marjorie T. A. Hall, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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HALLAM | Panel 8, Column 3. |
Seaman GEORGE VICTOR | Whaler |
LT/JX. 240920. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 22. Son of John Henry and Alice Mary Hallam; husband of Elsie Hallam, of Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire. |
| 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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HALLOWS | Panel 8, Column 3. |
Seaman JAMES STANLEY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 205745. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alouette. 19th September, 1942. Age 22. Son of Mrs. E. Hallows, of Clitheroe, Lancashire. |
| 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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HALLSWORTH | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. WILLIAM RAYMOND | Barrage Balloon Vessel |
LT/KX. 153123. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 22. Son of Edgar and Annie Hallsworth, of Belper, Derbyshire. |
| Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin) |
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HAMBLETT | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 306847. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Transvaal. 18th November, 1944. |
| 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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HAMER | Addenda Panel. |
Sub-Lieutenant WILLIAM EVANS | Motor Minesweeper |
RNVR. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 117. 1st September, 1944. Son of Mrs. F. M. Hamer, West Worthing, Sussex |
| 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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HAMILTON | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 206467. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 25. Son of Joseph and Margaret Hamilton, of Saltcoats, Ayrshire. |
| 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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HAMPSON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman FREDERICK | Trawler |
LT/X. 6064ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Waveflower. 22nd October, 1940. Age 34. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Hampson, of Cardiff; husband of Violet May Hampson, of Grange Town, Cardiff. |
| 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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HAMPSON | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman WILLIAM | Minelayer |
LT/KX. 101097. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 22. Son of Frederick and Mary Jane Hampson, of Wigan, 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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HAMPTON | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 228699. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941. Age 21. Son of Alfred and Catherine Hampton, of Wolverhampton. |
| 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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HAMPTON | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. RONALD HARTLEY | Trawler |
RNR. 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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HANCOCK | Panel 16, Column 2. |
Ord. Tel. CHARLES CLlFFORD NELSON | Frigate |
LT/JX. 216637. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.C.S. Valleyfield. 7th May, 1944. Age 22. Son of William and Bessie Hancock, of Kennebunk, Maine, U.S.A. Native of Newfoundland. |
| Notes or comments: Native of Newfoundland, Canadian 'River' class frigate, torpedoed off Cape Race, Newfoundland (HMSO: BVLS 1939-45) |
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HANDY | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. ROBERT PATRICK | Trawler |
LT/KX. 107970. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. |
| 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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HANLON | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman RONALD WALTER | Trawler |
LT/KX. 124847. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 36. Son of Waiter and Charlotte Hanlon, of Hull; husband of Maud Mary Hanlon, of Hull. |
| 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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HANNAH | Panel 8, Column 3. |
Seaman GEORGE LAPSLEY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 280295. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Waterfly. 17th September, 1942. Age 42. Son of David Marshall Hannah and Mary Lapsley Hannah, of Falkirk, Stirlingshire; husband of Margaret Helen Hannah, of Falkirk. |
| 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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HANNAN | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. CHARLES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 132117. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Son of Robert and Caroline Hannan; husband of Mary Hannan, of New Cross, 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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HANSEN | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. (E) PEDER | |
RNR. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 42. Son of Hans Rasmus Syventsen and Hilma Elisabeht (nee Johannessen); husband of Martha Hansen, of Haukerod, Norway. |
| 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). Native of Norway |
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HARDCASTLE | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Skipper THOMAS | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Loch lnver. 22nd September, 1940. Age 31. Son of John Albert and Florence Hardcasde, of Hull; husband of Annie Elizabeth Hardcasde, of Hull. |
| 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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HARDING | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. WILLlAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 240700. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 21. Son of William and Lucy Louisa Harding, of Litherland, Lancashire. |
| 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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HARDINGE-KATON | Panel 4, Column 3. |
Lieut. PATRICK ANTHONY HAROLD | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941. Age 25. Son of Alfred Thomas Hardinge-Katon, and Isobella HardingeKaton, of Ealing, 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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HARDMAN | Panel 4, Column 1. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. JOHN ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/KX. 108570. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ethel Taylor. 22nd November, 1940. |
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HARDY | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. ERNEST | Trawler |
LT/KX. 532878. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 22. |
| 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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HARDY | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman HERBERT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 436558. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 19. Son of Charles Ernest and Elizabeth Hardy, of South Kirkby, 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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HARDY | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Sto. DAVID GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 136479. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 22. Son of Roderick and Mary E. Hardy, of Whepstead, Suffolk. |
| 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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HARE | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Sto. ALBERT | Trawler |
LT/X. 10505S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Sedgefly. 14th December, 1939. Son of Ernest James Hare and Emma Elisabeth Hare. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for ant-submarine duties, sunk by mine of Tyne (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HARGREAVES | Panel 13, Column 1. |
Cook HAROLD | Drifter |
LT/MX. 87017. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ocean Retriever. 22nd September, 1943. Age 21. Son of Thomas Hargreaves, and of Ellen Hargreaves, of Elton, Bury, Lancashire. |
| 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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HARLEY | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Cook PETER | Trawler |
LT/MX. 83221. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 33. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Harley, of Tayport, Fife. |
| 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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HARLING | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Telegraphist FRANK | Trawler |
LT/JX. 299727. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Son of James William and Margaret Harling, of Rochdale, tancashire. |
| 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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HARMON | Panel 7, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. THOMAS JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/KX. 120825. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Selborne. 31st March, 1941. Age 24. Son of Thomas Joseph and Mary Harmon; husband of Helen Harmon, of Glasgow. |
| 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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HARPER | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Ldg. Cook THOMAS GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/MX. 83101. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Erin. 18th January, 1942. Age 56. Son of Thomas George and Elisebeth J. Harper; husband of Kate Mathieson Harper, of Aberdeen. |
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HARPER | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman GORDON SYDNEy" | Trawler |
LT/X. 1O149S. RNR. (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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HARRIS | Panel 6, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. ERNEST EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 218423. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fortuna. 5th April, 1941. Age 32. Son of Richard and Barbara Mary Ann Harris, of Bermondsey; London. |
| 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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HARRIS | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. ALBERT JOHN | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 30. Son of Albert and Hannah Harris, of Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. |
| 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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HARRIS | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. ALBERT ROBERT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 173551. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942. Age 34. Son of George Arthur and Alice Edith Harris, of Gorleston, Norfolk; husband of Violet May Harris. |
| 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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HARRIS | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 125438. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Hailsham. 27th February, 1943. Age 22. Son of George and Ivy Harris, of Barrowford, Lancashire. |
| 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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HARRIS | Panel 11, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. RALPH BLUNDELL | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 21. Son of Ralph Lee Harris and Doris Mabel Harris, of Greasby, Cheshire. |
| 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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HARRISON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman GEORGE WILLlAM CHRISTOPHER | Trawler |
LT/KX. .116111. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Inver. 22nd September, 1940. Age 30. Son of George William and Florence May Harrison, of Hull. |
| 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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HARRISON | Panel 8, Column 3. |
Seaman LAURENCE VIGTOR | Trawler |
LT/JX. 191604. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 22. Son of Bertram Hastings Harrison and Eveline Elizabeth Harrison, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. |
| 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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HARRISON | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Ch. Engineman JOHN | Trawler |
LT/X. 6139 ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 38. Son of Charles Edward and Elizabeth Harrison, of Fleetwood, Lancashire; husband of Emily Harrison, of Fleetwood, Lancashire. |
| 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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HARRISON | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman EDWARD DUNCAN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 113977. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 31. Son of Edward and Mary Aitken Harrison, of Aberdeen; husband of Robina Harrison, of Aberdeen. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HART | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. JOHN WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 219630. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Inver. 22nd September, 1940. Age 29. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hart, of Folkestone, Kent; husband of Kathleen L. Hart, of Folkestone. |
| 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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HART | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman HORACE | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 278268. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 117. 1st September, 1944. |
| 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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HART | Panel 17, Column 3. |
Ord. Tel. ERIC RIDLEY | Landing Ship: Tank |
LT/JX. 572275. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. LST. 403. 6th April, 1946. Age 21. Son of Cedric Claude and Annie Hart, of High Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
| Notes or comments: built under lend/lease for RN at Bathlehem-Fairfield, Baltimore USA, 1625 tons, length 327, beam 50, carrying 18x 30 ton tanks or equivalent, (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2) |
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HARTWELL | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman STANLEY JACK | Trawler |
LT/KX. 128728. 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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HARVEY | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Second Hand BERNE HAROLD | Drifter |
LT/JX. 242691. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Thistle. 8th May, 1941. Age 27. Son of Henry and Alice Harvey, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Marjorie Gladys Harvey, of Lowestoft. |
| 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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HARVEY | Panel 8, Column Y. |
Seaman EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 206536. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 22. Son of William Harvey, and of Elizabeth Harvey, of Kirkcaldy, Fife. |
| 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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HARVEY | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman CANNON WILLlAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 242437. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Son of Cannon Benjamm and Anne Elizabeth Harvey, of Happisburgh, 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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HARVEY | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman ARTHUR ERNEST CHARLES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 179773. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 27. Son of Charles and Maude Harvey, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Gertrude May Lydia Harvey, of Lowestoft. |
| 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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HARVEY | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. WILFRED CECIL | Trawler |
LT/KX. 126412. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Son of George and Louise Harvey; husband of Florrie May Harvey, of Burton-on-Trent. |
| 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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HARVEY | Panel 11, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. GEORGE MARTIN | Shore Establishment |
LT/JX. 222794. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. President III. 11th November, 1943. Age 28. Son of George and Beatrice Mary Harvey, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Mary A. Harvey, of Grimsby. |
| 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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HARWOOD | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ch. Engineman ALBERT HENRY | Trawler |
LT/327EV. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Roche Bonne. 7th April, 1941. Age 46. Son of Henry George and Anne Harwood; husband of Ellen Louisa Harwood, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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HASKAYNE | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Seaman STANLEY | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 355462. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 68. 4th February, 1945. Age 20. Son of Robert and Hannah Eliza Haskayne, of Melling, Liverpool. |
| 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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HATFIELD | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 107566. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Revella. 10th March, 1941. |
| Notes and Comments: requisitioned November 1939 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, 1940 converted for minesweeping, March 1941 bombed by aircraft and six killed, vessel sank August 1941 (no cause given) and later salvaged and returned to owners. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; naval-history.net) |
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HATHERALL | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Sto. FREDERICK | Drifter |
LT/X. 102595. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Drifter Ray of Hope. 10th December, 1939. Son of Charles F. and Sarah A. Hatherall, of Cadoxton, Barry, Glamorgan. |
| Notes and Comments: Requisitioned November 1939 as minesweeper, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HAVERCROFT | Panel 11, Column 1. |
Lieut. ERIC | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Jura. 7th January, 1943. Age 28. Son of Robert Wilkinson Havercroft, and of Eleanor Mary Havercroft, of Darlington, Co. Durham. |
| 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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HAVERON | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman CHARLES WILUAM WHEATLEY | Whaler |
LT/JX. 176737. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 24. Son of Catherine Haveron, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
| 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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HAWES | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. CHARLES FREDERICK | Minelayer |
LT/KX. 111056. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 39. Son of George Henry and Mary Elizabeth Hawes, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; husband of Muriel Hawes, of Middlesbrough. |
| 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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HAWKINS | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Ord. Tel. WALTER LLEWELYN | Tug |
LT/JX. 360697. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Tug Roode Zee. 24th April, 1944. Age 21. Son of David Henry and Alice Hawkins, of Beaufort, Monmouthshire. |
| Notes or comments: Dutch tug hired 1941, in use as rescue tug from January 1943, sunk by torpedo from E-boat off Dungenness, English Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HAWSON | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman WILUAM BIRKS | Drifter |
LT/JX. 224432. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Receptive. 3rd July, 1941. Age 39. Son of William and Emily Hawson; husband' of Kathleen Hawson, of Knightsbridge, London. |
| Notes and Comments: April 1940 as auxilliary patrol vessel, sunk by mine in Thames Estuary (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HAY | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/X. 351ED. RNR. (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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HAY | Panel 17, Column 3. |
Cook RODERICK | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/MX. 107221. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2024. 12th May, 1945. Age 23. Son of John Hay and of Catherine Hay (nee Fraser), of Nairn. |
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HAYES | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman ALEXANDER | Yacht |
LT/KX. 111106. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Torrent. 6th April, 1941. Age 37. Son of Samuel and Sarah Hayes, of Belfast. |
| 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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HAYES | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman JAMES | Whaler |
LT/JX. 176562. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. |
| 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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HAYES | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. CYRIL | Trawler |
LT/KX. 127475. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 27. Son of Samuel and Cordelia Hayes, of Meadowfield, Co. Durham. |
| 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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HAYLES | Panel 13, Column 1. |
Ldg. Cook GEORGE ALBERT | Trawler |
LT/MX. 87185. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 25. Son of Edward and Lizzie Hayles, of Grimsby, 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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HAYTER | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman WILLIAM HENRY | Trawler |
LT/X. 19471 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 32. Husband of Edith Hayter, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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HAYWARD | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman GEORGE FREDERICK | Drifter |
LT/KX. 125428. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter D'Arcy Cooper. 9th April, 1941. |
| Notes and Comments: 1928 built 126 ton vessel, hired for examination service 1940, sunk by aircraft off Harwich (HMSO: BVLS 1939-45; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HAYWARD | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman ARTHUR | Trawler |
LT/JX. 436311. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pine. 31st January, 1944. Age 19. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bullock Hayward, of Goldenhill, Staffordshire. |
| 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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HAYWARD | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Telegraphist PETER CLARENCE | Trawler |
LT/IX. 343914. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 20. Son of David Waiter and Agnes Elizabeth Hayward, of Brighton, Sussex. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HEAD | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. GEORGE NORMAN | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. Age 22. Son of George Edwin and Marie Blanche Head, of Thomton Heath, Surrey. |
| 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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HEALY | Panel 13, Column 1. |
Ldg. Cook JOHN FORSYTH | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/MX. 85150. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2019. 19th September, 1943. Age 33. Husband of Mary Healy, of Greenock, Renfrewshire.. |
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HEARD | Panel 11, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. PETER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 225030. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 36. Husband of Ida M. Heard, of Tollesbury, Essex. |
| 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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HEBDEN | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman JACK | Trawler |
LT/JX. 193895. R.N. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 29. Son of James and Margaret Ann Hebden, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Awarded the Royal Humane Society's Certificate. |
| 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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HEDGECOCK | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. THOMAS ALAN | Whaler |
LT/JX. 285277. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sotra. 29th January, 1942. Age 20. Son of Albert L. and Ida E. Hedgecock, of Garston, Lancashire. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (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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HEDLEY | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman NORMAN | Trawler |
LT/JX, 403602. 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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HEENAN | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman WALTER | Trawler |
LT/KX. 101863. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. |
| 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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HELLENS | Panel 4, Column 2. |
Seaman Cook CHARLES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 173407. RN. Patrol Service, H.M. Trawler Stella Sirius. 25th September, 1940. |
| 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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HELME | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOSEPH WRIGHT | Drifter |
LT/JX. 206465. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Reed. 7th November, 1940. Age 19. Son of Stephen William Helme, and of Elsie H. Helme, of Fleetwood, Lancashire. |
| 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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HEMSLEY | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman ALBERT EDWARD | Drifter |
LT/JX. 173557. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Reed 7th November, 1940. Age 38. Son of Amos Alfred and Florence Beatrice Hemsley, of Fishersgate, Sussex; husband of Lucy Alexandria Hemsley, of Fishersgate. |
| 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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HENDERSON | Panel 6, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 228092. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Strathborve. 6th September, 1941. Age 19. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Henderson, of Tweedmouth, Northumberland. |
| 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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HENDERSON | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman ADAM SHELL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 400013. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 20. Son of Robert Snowden Henderson and Margaret Henderson, of Holy Island, Northumberland. |
| 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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HENDERSON | Panel 13, Column 3. |
Second Hand ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/X. 7802 C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 36. Son of Barbara Henderson, of Wick, Caithness-shire; husband of Isabel B. Henderson, of Wick. |
| 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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HENDERSON | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Ldg. Sea. HENRY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 214235. RN. 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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HENFREY | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. RONALD WILLIAM | Whaler |
RNVR. H.M.S. Sotra. 29th January, 1942. Age 32. Husband of Isabel Frederica Henfrey, of Twickenham, Middlesex. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (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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HENSON | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Skipper FREDERICK ALFRED | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Sisapon. 12th June, 1940. Age 38. Son of Jack and Mary Henson, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Charlotte Miriam Henson, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| Requisitioned September 1939 for mine-sweeping duties, based at Grimsby (ungrouped), sunk by mine off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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HERD | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman SAMUEL | Yacht |
LT/JX. 280344. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Aelda. 6th November, 1943. Age 42. Son of David and Mary Herd, of Kirkcaldy, Fife. |
| Notes or comments: 47 ton yacht, hired October 1939, lost 6th November 1943 (no cause, no details of duties) (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HETHERINGTON | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman ROBERT | |
LT/JX. 517372. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Staunch. 25th July, 1944. Age 19. Son of William and Eliza Hetherington, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
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HEWISON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman JAMES FERGUS | Drifter |
LT/X. 10024S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Drifter Torbay II. 1st November, 1940. Age 34. Son of Thomas and Emma Hewison, of Whitby, Yorkshire; husband of Alice Steel Hewison, of Whitby. |
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HEWITT | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman WILLIAM DODDS | Barrage Balloon Vessel |
LT/JX. 242075. RN. Patrol ServIce. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Son of John and Grace Hewitt, of Glasgow. |
| Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin) |
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HIBBETT | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman GEORGE HENRY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 426309. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 19: Son of James Frederick and Annie Elizabeth Hibbett. |
| 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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HIBBIT | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Ord. Tel. LEONARD GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 330590. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 21. Son of Frederick Alfred Hibbit, and of Mary Hibbit, of Cheam, Surrey. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HIBBS | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Seaman KENNETH FRANCIS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 242731. 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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HIGGINS | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Sto. JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/223W. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Sedgefly. 14th December, 1939. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for ant-submarine duties, sunk by mine of Tyne (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HIGGINS | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. CHARLES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 179422. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sisapon. 12th June, 1940. Age 24. Son of Helen Higgins, of Paisley, Renfrewshire. |
| Requisitioned September 1939 for mine-sweeping duties, based at Grimsby (ungrouped), sunk by mine off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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HILDER | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Second Hand WILLlAM ALBERJ' | Drifter |
LT/JX. 185433. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Boy Andrew. 9th November, 1941. Age 53. Husband of Ethel Maud Hilder, of Hull. |
| 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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HILL | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/X. 21196 A. RNR. (Patrol Serv:ice).. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940. Age 19. |
| Notes and Comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HILL | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman JOHN RICHARD | Yacht |
LT/5766D. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Yacht Torrent. 6th April, 1941. Age 39. Son of John Richard and Margaret Hill; husband of Blanche Lilian Hill, of Bumley, Lancashire. |
| 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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HILL | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman BERNARD | Whaler |
LT/JX. 210970. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. |
| 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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HILL | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub - Lieut. FREDERICK WILLlAM | Trawler |
Mentioned in Despatches. RNVR. H.M. Trawler Waterfly. 17th September, 1942. Age 30. Son of Samuel Charles and Clara Jane Hill, of Croxley Green, Hertfordshire; husband of Peggy Hill. |
| 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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HILL | Panel 13, Column 2. |
Lieut. EDWARD JAMES | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 41. Son of James Joseph and Alice Rose Hill, of Bournemouth, Hampshire; husband of Constance Esme Hill, of Bournemouth. |
| 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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HILTON | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. STANLEY | Trawler |
LTiKX. 106125. 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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HIND | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. WILSON KELSO | Trawler |
LT/X 10320 B. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 28. Son of Thomas Edward and Hannah Wilson Hind, of Culler coats, Northumberland. |
| 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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HIND | Panel 6, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. REGINALD | Yacht |
LT/JX. 216209. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Torrent. 6th April, 1941. Age 24. Adopted son of Mrs. G. S. Brown, of Wingate, Co. Durham. |
| 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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HINDMARSH | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 98164. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Achilleus. 1st June, 1940. |
| 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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HINTON | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Seaman SPENCER JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX 317426. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 27. Son of Alfred J ames Hinton and Maude Emily Hinton, of Forest Gate, 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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HIPPEY | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman JOHN GEOFFREY | Trawler |
LT/JX 261286. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Milford Earl. 8th December, 1941. |
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HIRD | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman CECIL | Trawler |
LT/KX. 115420. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Warland. 18th February, 1942. Son of William Berriman Hird and Emily Hird; husband of Ethel Hird (nee Howlett), of Hull. |
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HISCOCK | Addenda Panel. |
Petty Officer HAROLD | Shore Establishment |
LT/JX 217862. RN Patrol Serice. H.M.S. Quebec. 2nd February, 1945. Native of Newfoundland |
| Notes or comments: HMS Quebec - Combined Training Centre at Inverary 1/9/1940-1/7/1946. (Warlow: Shore Est. RN). Native of Newfoundland |
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HISCUTT | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. CHARLES HENRY | Drifter |
LT/KX. 120058. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Unicity. 31st January, 1942. |
| 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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HITCHAM | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. ALBERT | Trawler |
LT/KX. 100957. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Ceylonite (on loan to U.S. Navy). 15th June, 1942. Age 23. Son of Samuel and Annie Hitcham, of South Shields, Co. Durham; husband of Edith Maud Hitcham, of West Harton, South Shields. |
| Notes or comments: Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, purchased November 1939, on loan with crew to U.S. Navy March 1942, mined in Chesapeake Bay (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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HITCHING | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman CHARLES HERBERT EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 231744. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Ceylonite (on loan to U.S. Navy). 15th June, 1942. Age 27. Son of Herbert John Wilfrid and Ada Margaret Hitching, of Le tonstone, Essex. |
| Notes or comments: Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, purchased November 1939, on loan with crew to U.S. Navy March 1942, mined in Chesapeake Bay (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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HOARE | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Ord. Seaman Steward JOHN ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/JX. 207302. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lincoln City. 21st February, 1941. Age 20. Son of John Alfred ami Annie Hoare. |
| 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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HOARE | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman LEWIS GEORGE | Barrage Balloon Vessel |
LT/KX. 120266. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 30. Son of Lewis George and Hellen Hoare; husband of Doris Lilian Hoare, of Holloway, London. |
| Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin) |
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HOBBS | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman VICTOR FREDERICK WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 116574. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 29. Son of Fredrick and Edith Alice Hobbs; husband of Winifred Hobbs, of Salford, 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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HOBSON | Panel 16, Column 1. |
Cook LORIS | Trawler |
LT/MX. 107746. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pine. 31st January, 1944. Age 20. Son of Alfred and Mabel Hobson, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. |
| 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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HODDS | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman JOHN WILLIAM | Drifter |
LT/JX. 265204. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter D'Arcy Cooper. 9th April, 1941. |
| Notes and Comments: 1928 built 126 ton vessel, hired for examination service 1940, sunk by aircraft off Harwich (HMSO: BVLS 1939-45; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HODGSHON | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. HENRY BLEBY | Trawler |
RNVR. 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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HODGSON | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman CHRISTOPHER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 203812. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Wallasea. 6th January, 1944. Age 43. Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Hodgson, of Holyhead, Anglesey; husband of Olga Hodgson, of Holyhead. |
| 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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HOGG | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. GEORGE MALLISON | Trawler |
LT/KX. 104959. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 25. Son of Alexander and Agnes Hogg; husband of LiIian Hogg, of Dover. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HOLDEN | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. ROBERT FRANK | Trawler |
LT/JX. 170701. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Robert Bowen. 9th February, 1940. Age 19. Son of Thomas John and Edith Holden, of Torquay, Devon. |
| 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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HOLDEN | Panel 12, Column 1. |
Sigmn. GORDON MICHAEL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 269180. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 22. Son of the Revd. Alfred Cuthbert Holden, M.A., and Violet Eva Holden, of Harby, Leicestershire. |
| Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HOLDER | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman HARRY ALBERT | Yacht |
LT/JX. 222282. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Viva II. 8th May, 1941. Age 26. Son of Henry Howe Holder and Agnes Gwendoline Holder, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. |
| 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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HOLLAND | Panel 16, Column 1. |
Cook REGINALD | Trawler |
LT/MX. 121580. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 20. Son' of WilIiam and Daisy Holland, of Sidcup, Kent. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HOLLIS | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. WALTER | Trawler |
LT/KX. 160107. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Maaloy. 27th March, 1944. |
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HOLM | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. WILLIAM | Whaler |
LT/KX. 130925. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sotra. 29th January, 1942. Age 24. Son of Peder Albert and WiIhelmine Holm, of Porsgrunn, Norway. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (different sources record by aircraft and by U-431) off Bardia, Libya. (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45). Native of Norway |
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HOLT | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Second Hand WILLIAM GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/X. 20089A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Age 29. Son of George WilIiam and Jane Holt, of Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Ivy Elsie Holt, of Lowestoft. |
| 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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HOLTON | Panel 13, Column 2. |
Lieut. FREDERIC WILLIAM | Motor Minesweeper |
RNVR. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. |
| 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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HOOD | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman SIDNEY ERNEST | Trawler |
LT/JX. 186676. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Age 49. Son of Jesse and Lucy Hood; husband of Mabel Harriett Hood, of Langold, Nottinghamshire. |
| 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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HOOKEM | Panel 11, Column 1. |
Second Hand ERNEST | Drifter |
LT/JX. 166076. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ut Prosim. 2nd March, 1943. Age 31. Son of Ernest and Florence Hookem, of Hull; husband of Hilda Mary Hookem, of Hull. |
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HOOKEM | Panel 14, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. JOHN WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 195944. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Son of WilIiam and Louisa Hookem. |
| 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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HOOLE | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman LOUIS | Trawler |
LT/KX. 106137. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rosemonde. 22nd January, 1942. |
| 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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HOOPER | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Ord. Sigmn. JACK | Trawler |
LT/JX. 340671. RN. Patrol. Service. H.M. Trawler Haybum Wyke. 2nd January, 1945. Age 20. Son of Frank and Lilian Maud Hooper, of Bideford, Devon. |
| 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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HOPE | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman ALBERT | Trawler |
LT/KX. 111443. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Age 40. Son of Albert and Ada Hope, of Hull; husband of Elizabeth Hope, of Hull. |
| 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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HOPEWELL | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman GEORGE HERBERT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 380596. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 20. Son of Cyril and Florence May Hopewell, of Ruddington, Nottinghamshire. |
| 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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HOPKINS | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. EDWARD HAROLD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 287554. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 20. Son of Henry Francis and Emily Kate Hopkins, of Reading, Berkshire. |
| 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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HOPPER | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman EDWARD JAMES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 99844. 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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HORNE | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. THOMAS | |
LT/KX. 109638. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Good Design. 23rd November, 1940. Son of William and Joanna Home, of Port Seton, East Lothian. |
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HORNELL | Panel 12, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. KENNETH VINCENT | |
LT/JX. 436509. RN. Patrol Service. French Ship Paris II. 14th June, 1943. Age 19. Son of John and Bessie Evelyn Hornell, of Moor Row, Cumberland. |
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HORTON | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. FREDERICK | Trawler |
LT/KX. 106667. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Hailsham. 27th February, 1943. Age 26. Son of Arthur John and Florence Ada Horton, of Sutton, Surrey; husband of Marjorie Irene Horton, of Sutton. |
| 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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HOSIE | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. ALEXANDER CAIE | Whaler |
LT/SR 50451. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 23. Son of William McGregor Hosie and Mary Ann Caie Hosie, of Torry, Aberdeen. |
| 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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HOSIER | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman WILLIAM HENRY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 174453. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941. Son of William Henry and Lily A. Hosier; husband of, Ena Mary Hosier, of Garth, Denbighshire. |
| 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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HOSKING | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman BERTIE | Trawler |
LT/SX. 195912. RN. Patrol. Service. H.M. Trawler Joseph Button. 22nd October, 1940. Age 25. Son of James and Mabel Hosking, of Newlyn, Cornwall; husband of Vera Hosking, of Newlyn. |
| Notes or comments: Castle class, requisitioned August 1939 and converted to minesweeper, sunk by mine off Aldeburgh (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Toghill: Trawlers1) |
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HOSSACK | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JAMES | Trawler |
LT/X. 7895 C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 29. Son of Donald and Ann Hossack. |
| 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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HOUGH | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. PERCY ALBERT | Whaler |
LT/KX. 130556. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Santa. 23rd November, 1943. Age 20. Son of Percy Albert and Rosina Hough, of Bow, London. |
| 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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HOUGHTON | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Lieut. - Comdr. LEONARD | |
RNVR. H.M.S. Paragon. 3rd November, 1940. Age 42. |
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HOUSLEY | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Ch. Engineman STEPHEN ARTHUR | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/KX. 109644. Mentioned in Despatches. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 105. 12th July, 1944. Age 34. Son of Thomas Stephen and Mary Jane Housley; husband of Mary Stuart Housley, of Meols, Cheshire. |
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HOWARD | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman ALFRED VINCENT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 185689. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940. Age 37. Son of Vincent Howard and of Alice Maud Mary Howard (nee, Murdock); husband of Mary Agnes Howard (nee Bishop)). |
| Notes and Comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HOWE | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/JX. 176734. 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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HOWELL | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. GEORGE HENRY | Trawler |
LT/KX. 117060. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Force. 27th June, 1941. Age 28. Son of Henry and Ada Howell, of Worcester. |
| Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties February 1940, sunk by air attack off Norfolk Coast (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HOWES | Panel 16, Column 2. |
Skipper ARTHUR ERNEST WILLIAM | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 36. Son of Ernest George and Clara Miranda Howes, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Doris Mary Howes, of Lowestoft. |
| 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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HOWLAND | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman WILLIAM JAMES EDWARD | |
LT/JX. 241622. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Their Merit. 5th August, 1943. Age 37. Son of William Richard and Mary Howland; husband of Catherine Ada Howland, of Willesborough, Kent. |
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HUDSON | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Tel. HAROLD ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/LD/X. 5407 RNVR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Sea King. 9th October, 1940. Age 19. |
| 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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HUGGINS | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman DEREK ANTHONY CHARLES | |
LT/KX. 115901. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Helier. 19th August, 1942. |
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HUGHES | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. ROBERT | Trawler |
LT/288W. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Waveflower. 22nd October, 1940. Age 47. Husband of Alice Hughes, of Bradley, Wrexham, Denbighshire. |
| 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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HUGHES | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman EVERETT JOHN | Drifter |
LT/JX. 196062. RN. Patrol Service. 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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HUGHES | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. MICHAEL | Trawler |
LT/KX. 148511. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 23. Son of Roland and Ellen Hughes; husband of Mary Anne Hughes, of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. |
| 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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HUGHES | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 257442. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942. Age 34. Son of Henry and Sarah Hughes, of Liverpool. |
| 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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HUGHES | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman WILLIAM JAMES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 206369. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 32. Son of John William and Catherine Mary Hughes, of Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire; husband of Jane Olwen Hughes, of Aberystwyth. |
| 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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HUGHES | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman RONALD ERIC | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 242607. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2019. 19th September, 1943. |
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HUGHES | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 242857. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 35. Son of Jane Hughes, of Maryport, Cumberland; husband of Hannah Walker Hughes, of Maryport. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HUGHES | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Sto. ERIC | Trawler |
LT/KX. 114299. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 25. Son of Robert and Mary Elizebeth Hughes, of Parr, St. Helens, Lancashire; husband of Marie Hughes. |
| 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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HUIJER | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Second Hand PIET | Trawler |
LT/JX. 221454. 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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HUMBLE | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman BERNARD MCQUE | Trawler |
LT/X. 1O087S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Wyoming. 20th May, 1944. Age 28. Son of Harold Humble and of Elizabeth Humble (nee McQue); husband of Marjorie E. K. Humble, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
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HUMBLE-SMITH | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. ROGER RODWELL | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 24. Son of George and Myldrede Humble-Smith; husband of Stella Nora Humble-Smith, of Southbourne, Hampshire. |
| 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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HUMPHREY | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman CECIL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 180393. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lincoln City. 21st February, 1941. Age 41. Son of Arthur Ernest and Elizabeth Humphrey, of Hull; husband of Eveline Humphrey, of Hull. |
| 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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HUMPHREY | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. FREDERICK | Trawler |
LT/KX. 102448. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 31. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Humphrey, of Eastbourne, 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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HUMPHREY | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman ALBERT EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 218339. RN. Parrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 11th March, 1942. Age 39. Son of Albert Edward and Annie Elizabeth Humphrey, of Kilburn, Middlesex; husband of Rebecca Humphrey, of Hull. |
| 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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HUMPHREY | Panel 13, Column 2. |
Lieut. IORWERTH BRIAN EVAN | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 14th 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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HUNTER | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Sto. JAMES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 99394. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Doon. 24th December, 1939. |
| 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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HUNTER | Panel 13, Column 1. |
Ldg. Cook EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/MX. 83311. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. , 22nd October, 1943. Son of William and Mary Ann Hunter; husband of Rose Evelyn Hunter, of Filey Yorkshire. |
| 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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HUNTER | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman WILLIAM | Whaler |
LT/JX. 17 056. 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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HUNTER | Panel 16, Column 1. |
P.O. Cook FARQUHARSON SHAW MIDDLETON | Auxilliary A.A. Vessel |
LT/MX. 87169. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Glen Avon. 2nd September, 1944. Age 50. Husband of Charlotte Burnand Hunter, of Aberdeen. |
| Notes or comments: Requisitioned as a Paddle Minesweeper, 509 tons, and converted to Auxilliary Anti-Aircraft vessel in May, 1942, foundered in a gales Seine Bay (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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HURNE | Panel 4, Column 1. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. FREDERICK HENRY | Trawler |
LT/KX. 102820. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Dorado. 1st June, 1940. |
| 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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HURRELL | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman ROY | Trawler |
LT/X. 10096 B. RNR. (Patrol Service). 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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HUTTON | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman ERNEST FRANCIS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 191605. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 11th March, 1942. Age 22. Son of James and Clara Hutton, of Hulme, Manchester. |
| 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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HYNES | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. CHRISTOPHER | Trawler |
LT/KX. 144639. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942. Age 32. Son of Charles and Mary Hynes, of Leixlip, Co. Kildare, Republic of Ireland. |
| 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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IFE | Addenda Panel. |
Lieutenant STANLEY JOHN | Motor Minesweeper |
Mentioned in Despatches. RNVR. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. Age 37. Son of Frederick William and Catherine Ife; husband of Gladys Mary Ife, of Rutherglen, Lanarkshire |
| 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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INGLIS | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman DAVID FINLAY | Drifter |
LT/IX. 180238. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Jewel. 18th May, 1941. Age 21. Son of James Liston Inglis and Mary Finlay Inglis. |
| Notes or comments: hired as minesweeper January 1940, sunk by mine in Belfast Lough (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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INGRAM | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Ord. Tel. MATTHEW | Trawler |
LT/JX. 234488. RN. 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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INKSTER | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN JAMES | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/IX. 400638. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 1019. 2nd July, 1944. Age 20. Son of Laurence A. and Elizabeth Inkster, of Burra Isle, Zetland. |
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INNES | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/X. 7925 C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Sedgefly. 14th December, 1939. Age 31. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Innes, of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; husband of Mary Innes, of Fraserburgh. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for ant-submarine duties, sunk by mine of Tyne (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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INNES | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman ARTHUR JOHN | Drifter |
LT/SR 51910. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Maida. 16th March, 1940. Age 21. Son of Arthur and Cathrine Innes, of Portknockie, Banffshire. |
| 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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INNES | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/KX. 113607. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Arctic Trapper. 3rd February, 1941. Age 27. Son of George and Jessie Ann Innes; husband of Isabella Innes, of Aberdeen. |
| 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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INNES | Panel 11, Column 1. |
Second Hand JAMES SMITH | Trawler |
LT/X. 18345A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 28. Son of George and Jane Anne Innes, of Buckie Banffshire; husband of Helen Innes, of Buckie. |
| 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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INWOOD | Panel 4, Column 1. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/KX. 105668. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 21. Son of Robert and Ada Emily Inwood, of Northampton. |
| 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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IZATT | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman LIVINGSTONE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 110059. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alberic. 3rd May, 1941. Son of Alexander and Mary S. Izatt; husband of Sadie Izatt, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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JACKSON | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Skipper SIDNEY | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Kingston Galena. 24th July, 1940. Age 29. Husband of Emily Jackson, of Gipsyville, 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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JACKSON | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Lieut. CHARLES WILLIAM | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940. Age 34. Son of Charles and Maude Adelaide Jackson, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Kathleen Jackson, of Grimsby. |
| Notes and Comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JACKSON | Panel 4, Column 3. |
Skipper PATRICK DONALD | Shore Establishment |
RNR. H.M.S. Stag. 19th August, 1941. Age 29. Son of Frederick Donald and Kathrine Jackson, of Fleetwood, Lancashire; husband of Ellen Jackson, of Fleetwood. |
| Notes or comments: Naval shore establishment at Port Said, Egypt, with several satellite bases in the area. (probably the accounting base for seagoing personnel not permanently posted - ed.) (Warlow: Shote Est. RN) |
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JACKSON | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. ROBERT JAMES | Whaler |
LT/KX. 108076. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. |
| 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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JACKSON | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. FARROW HOWDEN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 103790. 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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JACQUES | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Skipper JOSEPH | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Age 41. |
| 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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JAMES | Panel 7, Column 2. |
Cook HERBERT | Trawler |
LT/MX. 87135. 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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JAMES | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman EDWIN | Drifter |
LT/KX. 131175. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Golden Sunbeam. 19th August, 1942. |
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JAMESON | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Sigmn. HENRY JOSEPH | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/IX. 344524. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 22. Son of William and Elizabeth Sarah Jameson, of South Woodford, Essex. |
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JAMIESON | Panel 7, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. WILLIAM CRAWFORD | Trawler |
LT/KX. 144339. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Phineas Beard. 8th December, 1941. |
| 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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JAPPY | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/X. 445EU. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Gullfoss. 9th March, 1941. Age 41. Husband of Annie Jappy, of Buckie, Banffshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Purchased as minesweeper August 1939, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JAPPY | Panel 11, Column 1. |
Skipper ALEXANDER | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 40. Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Jappy; husband of Margaret Helen Jappy, of Buckie, Banffshire. |
| 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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JAPPY | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman WILLIAM | Barrage Balloon Vessel |
LT/X. 441EU. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Son of William and Elizabeth Jappy; husband of Jessie B. Jappy, of Ellon, Aberdeenshire. |
| Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin) |
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JARVIE | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Second Hand PHILLIP | Trawler |
LT/JX. 192300. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Relonzo. 20th January, 1941. Age 27. Son of Waiter Liston Jarvie and Annie Murray Jarvie, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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JARVIS | Panel 4, Column 3. |
Skipper HERBERT HENRY | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Remillo. 27th February, 1941. Age 36. Son of Thomas Edward and Anna Jarvis; husband of Lily Jarvis, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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JASPER | Panel 11, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. EDWARD STEWART | Landing Ship: Tank |
LT/JX., 279359. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. LST. 414. 15th August, 1943. Age 39. Son of Edmund and Francis Jasper; husband of Eileen Jasper, of Whitefield, Lancashire. |
| Notes or comments: built under lend/lease for RN at Bathlehem-Fairfield, Baltimore USA, 1625 tons, length 327, beam 50, carrying 18x 30 ton tanks or equivalent, (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2) |
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JEFFERIES | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Ord. Sigmn. ERIC HUBERT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 331105. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 22. Son of Hubert and Betty Jefferies; husband of Frances E. M. Jefferies, of Fairford, Gloucestershire. |
| 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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JENKINS | Panel 5, Column 1. |
P.O. JOHN | Shore Establishment |
LT/JX. 218537. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Baldur. 5th February, 1941. Age 37. Son of Thomas and Alice Jenkins, of Liverpool; husband of Marion May Jenkins, of Liverpool. |
| Notes or comments: HMS Baldur was Iceland shore base (Warlow: Shore Est. RN) |
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JENKINS | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. EVAN JAMES | Trawler |
LT/5806 D. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 36. Husband of Anice Nora Jenkins, of Cardiff. |
| 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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JENKINSON | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Engineman GEORGE NIGHTSCALES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 98268. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sedgefly. 14th December, 1939. Age 36. Son of Arthur and Harriet Jenkinson, of Hull. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for ant-submarine duties, sunk by mine of Tyne (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JENKINSON | Panel 4, Column 1. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. HERCULES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 103981. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Dorado. 1st June, 1940. Age 25. Son of John Henry and Martha Jenkinson, of Darlington, Co. Durham. |
| 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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JENNER | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Skipper ARTHUR FRANCIS SAMUEL | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Lord Stonehaven. 2nd October, 1942. Age 41. Son of William Frederick and Daisy Jenner, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire; husband of Philomena Maria Jenner, of Cleethorpes. |
| 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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JENSEN | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman ARVID | Yacht |
LT/KX. 114090. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Viva II. 8th May, 1941. Age 24. Son of Albert and Borghild Jensen, of Trondheim, Norway. |
| 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 Norway |
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JENSEN | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman VIGGO EDWARD HALL | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/KX. 107991. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 39. 7th August, 1941. Age 26. Son of Viggo and Jane Jensen; husband of Hilda Jensen, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. |
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JENSEN | Panel 16, Column 2. |
Ch. Skipper HANS ALBERT, DSC | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. Age 59. Son of Hans and Sene Jensen; husband of Annie Jensen, 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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JEPSON | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman JOSEPH HARRY VICTOR, DSM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 179498, RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 25. Son of John William and Sarah Jane Jepson, of Styrrup, 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) |
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JEROME | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. HENRY JAMES | Trawler |
LT/SR 55740. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942. Age 23. Son of Henry James Jerome and Ann Jerome; husband of Ethel Jerome, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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JEWELL | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman MARCUS EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 202285. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Galena. 24th July, 1940. Age 29. Son of Edward and Laura Jewell, of Minehead, Somerset; husband of Vera Jewell, of Minehead. |
| 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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JEWSON | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. ROBERT | Trawler |
LT/KX. 103793. RN. 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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JILLINGS | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman HE;NRY ARTHUR | Trawler |
LT/JX. 177687. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. |
| 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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JOHANSEN | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. (E) KARL JOHAN | Whaler |
RNVR. H.M.S. Sotra. 29th January, 1942. Age 40. Son of Johan and Ovidia Johansen; husband of Henny Johansen, of Husoysund, Tonsberg, Norway. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (different sources record by aircraft and by U-431) off Bardia, Libya. (Lenton/Colledge: Warships WW2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; HMSO: BVLS 1939-45). Native of Norway |
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JOHNS | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. HUBERT DANIEL | Drifter |
LT/KX. 99388. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Xmas Rose. 21st November, 1940. Age 27. Son of Hubert and Emily Gertrude J ohns, of Hull. |
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JOHNSON | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Seaman ERIC MENZIES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 166255. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Doon. 23rd December, 1939. Age 19. Son of Herbert Menzies J ohnson and Eva Gladys Johnson, of Gipsyville, 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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JOHNSON | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/X. 19144 A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Benvolio. 23rd February, 1940. Age 26. Son of Albert Edward and Margaret Johnson; husband of Annie Evelyn Johnson, of Aberdeen. |
| Notes or comments: Hired for minesweeping duties September, 1939, sunk by mine off the Humber (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2). |
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JOHNSON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman HARRY | Trawler |
LT/KX. 101775. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cape Passaro. 21st May, 1940. Age 41. Son of Edward Stephen and Annie Elizabeth Johnson, of Hull; husband of Gladys Johnson, of Hull. |
| class="notes">Notes and Comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for minesweeping, joined 15th A/S Strike Force as leader based at Aberdeen, took part in Norwegian campaign April/May 1940, lost in air attack off Narvik. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JOHNSON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman THOMAS CHRISTOPHER | Trawler |
LT/KX. 99057. Mentioned in Despatches. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Dervish. 9th September, 1940. Age 42. Son of Mary Johnson, of Hull; husband of Minnie Johnson, .of Hull. |
| Notes or comments: ex Norman, hired June 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, sunk by mine off Humber (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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JOHNSON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman THOMAS MAVIN, DSM | Trawler |
LT/X. ET, RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Rinovia. 2nd November, 1940. Age 42. Husband of Emily L. Johnson, of North Shields, Northumberland. |
| Notes and Comments: Hired August 1939 as minesweeper, sunk by mine off Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JOHNSON | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 200788. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pelton. 23rd December, 1940. Age 26. Son of John William and Mary Jane Johnson, of Filey, Yorkshire; husband of Eileen Johnson, of Filey. |
| 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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JOHNSON | Panel 4, Column 3. |
Skipper ALBERT EDWARD | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Age 26. |
| 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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JOHNSON | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. BASIL | Minelayer |
LT/KX. 130936. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 32. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Johnson; husband of Bahia Johnson, of Cardiff. |
| 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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JOHNSON | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman ROBERT CECIL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 241834. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Phineas Beard. 8th December, 1941. Age 29. Son of George and Mabel Johnson, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Beatrice Mary Johnson, of Grimsby. |
| 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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JOHNSON | Panel 12, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. DONALD HENRY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 373364. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 19. Son of Rose Elizabeth Johnson, of Norwich. |
| 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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JOHNSON | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Ord. Tel. ALAN CECIL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 405729. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Gairsay. 3rd August, 1944. Age 20. Son of Cecil and Ethel Johnson, of Sheffield. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by explosive motorboat off Normandy (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JOHNSTON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman JOHN | |
LT/KX. 109616. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Good Design. 23rd November, 1940. Age 31. Son of Peter and Margaret Johnston, of Port Seton, East Lothian. |
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JOHNSTON | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman ARCHIE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 215779. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942. Age 31. Son of Peter and Hannah Johnston, of Port Seton, East Lothian. |
| 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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JOHNSTON | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Sigmn. ALFRED | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 358955. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 101. 29th November, 1944. S6n of Alfred and Georgeina Johnston, of Norbury, Surrey. |
| Notes and Comments: built by Wagstaff & Hatfield, Port Greville, Nova Scotia, sunk by mine off Salonika, Greece (Lenton/Colledge: Warships; WW2; HMSO BVLS 1939-45) |
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JONES | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Ch. Engineman HUGH VICTOR REUBEN | Trawler |
LT/203EV. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Fleming. 24th July, 1940. Age 43. Son of Hugh Morris Jones and Augusta Minnie Jones, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire; husband of Martha Evelyn Jones, of Milford Haven. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Seaman Steward CYRIL MALCOLM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 197031. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alberie. 3rd May, 1941. Age 24. Son of Wiiliam George and Lilian F. Jones, of Basingstoke, Hampshire; husband of Daisy Jones, of Basingstoke. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. BERNARD WATTS | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Leyland. 27th November, 1942. Age 25. Son of B. Watts Jones and Beatrice Jones, of Swansea. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Ldg. Cook CHARLES PALFREY | Trawler |
LT/MX. 82331. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Jasper. 1st December, 1942. Age 31. Son of Walter Palfrey Jones and EmIy Jones, of Cardiff. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 129795. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Consolation. 18th November, 1943. Age 31. Son of Thomas Jones, and of Margaret Jones, of Bebington, Cheshire. |
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JONES | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman SAMUEL | Whaler |
LT/JX. 286587. 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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JONES | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Sigmn. GEORGE WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 310936. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 21. Son of William and Mary Jane Jones, of Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 16, Column 1. |
Ldg. Steward EMLYN | Whaler |
LT/LX. 30263. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Maaloy. 27th March, 1944. Age 20. Son of Taliesen and Mary Jones, of Kilburn, Middlesex. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman ARTHUR RICHARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 329425. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 20. Son of Richard and Mabel Alexander Jones, of Fulham, London. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman ERNEST | Trawler |
LT/JX. 189009. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 26. Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Emma Jones, of Stocksbridge, Yorkshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JONES | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman RICHARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 436549. 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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JONES | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman IVOR VERNON | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 428513. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Son of Alma William and Muriel Christine Jones, of Waking, Surrey. |
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JONES | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Engineman GEORGE IORWORTH | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/KX. 151604. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 68. 4th February, 1945. Age 21. Son of John and Charlotte Lucy Jones, of Sambrook, Shropshire. |
| 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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JONES | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Seaman KENNETH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 222938. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 25. Son of Edwin and Virginia Jones, of Come, Lancashire. |
| 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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JORDAN | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/267W. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Wyoming. 20th May, 1944. Age 44. Son of James and Mary Jordan, of Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham; husband of Mary Jordan, of Stockton-on-Tees, |
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JOSEPH | Panel 13, Column 2. |
Steward COLEMAN | Trawler |
LT/LX. 27768. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler William Stephen. 25th October, 1943. Age 23. Son of Abraham and Millie J oseph, of Willesden Green, Middlesex; husband of Rose Joseph. |
| Notes and Comments: ex Joseph Annison, requisitioned as William Stephen November 1939 and converted for minesweeping, sunk by E-boat off Cromer (Toghill:Trawlers 1/2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JOY | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman RUPERT | Trawler |
LT/X. 7899 C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Fort Royal. 9th February, 1940. Age 35. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Joy, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. |
| Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, later purchased, sunk by air attack off Aberdeen (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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JOY | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. ANTHONY CHANNAR | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 21. Son of Capt. and Mrs. Thomas C. Joy, of Bournemouth, Hampshire. |
| 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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JOYCE | Panel 7, Column 2. |
Ord. Seaman Cook MICHAEL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 213976. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Age 24. Son of Philip and Jane Joyce. |
| 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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JUDD | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman EDWARD HORACE | Trawler |
LT/X. 1O083S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. |
| 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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JULIER | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. HAROLD | Drifter |
LT/X. 21677A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th 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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KARLSEN | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Lieut. ERLING KRISTIAN | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Hickory. 22nd October, 1940. Son of Hugo and Anna Karlsen; husband of Alice Karlsen, of Tonsberg, Norway. |
| Notes or comments: Hired as minesweeper February 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2). Native of Norway |
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KAVENEY | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Seaman JAMES WILLIAM | Trawler |
C/JX. 166248. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Doon. 25th December, 1939. Age 29. Son of Patrick Terance and Lilian Kaveney, of Hull; husband of Dorothy Kaveney, 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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KAY | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Ord. Sigmn. JAMES ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 309775. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Orfasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 35. Son of James Henry and Kate Kay, of Gillingham, Kent; husband of Hilda Ellen Kay, of Gillingham. |
| 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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KEABLE | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman RUSSELL JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 179709. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940. Age 19. Son of Charles N. and Eva May Keable, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
| 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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KEEBLE | Panel 6, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. KENNETH WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 241592. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Remillo. 27th February, 1941. Age 28. Son of Waiter WilIiam and PhilIis Mary Keeble, of Paglesham, Essex. |
| 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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KEENAN | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman JOHN | Twin Screw Steamship |
LT/JX. 280220. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Age 29. Son of Charles and Mary Keenan; husband of Margaret Keenan, of DaIton-in-Furness, 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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KEEPER | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. CYRIL ARTHUR ALFRED | Minelayer |
LT/JX. 228707. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 23. Son of Henry William and Florence Mary Keeper. |
| 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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KELLETT | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 126766. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Son of WilIiam and E. KeIlett, of Macclesfield, Cheshire. |
| 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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KELLY | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Second Hand ANDREW | Yacht |
LT/JX. 187268. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Campeador V. 22nd June, 1940. |
| Notes or comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939, sunk by mine off Portsmouth, (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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KELLY | Panel 4, Column 2. |
Seaman Cook PATRICK | |
LT/JX. 205444. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Black Bear. 28th November, 1940. Age 22. |
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KELLY | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 253777. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. |
| 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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KELLY | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. HORACE LORAINS | Trawler |
LT/X. 10187S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Patrie. 1st January, 1943. Age 32. Son of Robert and EIlen Pearson KeIly, of Whitby, Yorkshire. |
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KELLY | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Ord. Tel. TERENCE JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 258061. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rysa. 8th December, 1943. Age 28. Son of Terence KeIly and of Barbara KeIly (nee Baxter), of Liverpool; husband of Frances KeIly (nee Linden), of Liverpool. |
| Notes or comments: Isles class, launched March 1941, sunk by mine off Maddelena, Sicily. (Toghill: Trawlers1; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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KELLY | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Sigmn. THOMAS PATRICK | Trawler |
LT/JX. 220669. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Transvaal. 18th November, 1944. Age 24. Son of James and Bridget KeIly, of Blackley, Manchester. |
| 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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KELSO | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. JOHN SYDNEY | Drifter |
LT/JX. 228182. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Jewel. 18th May, 1941. Age 18. Son of John Robert and Elizabeth Louise Kelso, of Douglas, Isle of Man. |
| Notes or comments: hired as minesweeper January 1940, sunk by mine in Belfast Lough (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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KENDALL | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman WALTER STEPHENSON | Trawler |
LT/KX. 106131. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Force. 27th June, 1941. Age 51. Son of Frederick Steven KendaIl and Mary KendaIl: husband of Elsie KendaIl, of Hayling Island, Hampshire. |
| Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties February 1940, sunk by air attack off Norfolk Coast (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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KENNEDY | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman MURDO | Trawler |
LT/X. 7745C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Fort Royal. 9th February, 1940. Age 30. Son of Murdo and Ann Kennedy, of Lochs, Isle of Lewis. |
| Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, later purchased, sunk by air attack off Aberdeen (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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KENNEDY | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman JOHN | Motor Launch |
LT/KX. 110659. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1154. 14th May, 1943. Age 36. Son of John and Susan Kennedy; husband of Veronica Theresa Kennedy, of Paisley, Renfrewshire. |
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KENNY | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. DAVID DOIG | Drifter |
LT/JX. 194322. 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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KENNY | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. JAMES WILLIAM | Drifter |
LT/KX. 12111. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Boy Andrew. 9th November, 1941. Age 25. Son of Alfred Patrick and EIlen Kenny, of Widnes, Lancashire. |
| 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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KERR | Panel 10, Column 3. |
Asst. Steward ROBERT PATON | Trawler |
LT/LX. 28241. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Ayrshire. 15th August, 1942. Age 39. Son of David and Mary Kerr; husband of Sarah Wilson Kerr, of Wishaw, Lanarkshire. . |
| Notes or comments: Ayrshire was hired for anti-submarine duties September 1939 - October 1945 and was in use in the Iceland command on Arctic convoy duties at this time. Vessel returned to owners October 1945. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Lenton/Colledge Warships WW2; Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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KERRIDGE | Panel 13, Column 3. |
P.O. RALPH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 196995. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Vidonia. 7th October, 1944. Age 26. Son of Walter Herbert and Olga Kathleen Kerridge, of Walshamle-WilIows, Suffolk; husband of May Amelia Kerridge. |
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KERRIVAN | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman BERNARD JAMES | |
LT/JX. 195245. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Elstan. 10th August, 1944. Age 24. Husband of Catherine Rosetta Kerrivan, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
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KEVIS | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. LESLIE WILLIAM | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 28. Son of William Henry and Margaret Daisy Kevis; husband of Kathleen Helen Kevis, of Romford, Essex. |
| 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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KEY | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman STANLEY GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 108562. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942. Age 21. Son of George Henry and, Annie Mary Key, of Cadoxton, Glamorgan. |
| 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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KING | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Lieut.-Comdr. EDGAR | Trawler |
RN. H.M. Trawler Fort Royal. 9th February, 1940. Age 54. Husband of Cpl. Freda M. King, W.A.A.F., of Docking, Norfolk. |
| Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, later purchased, sunk by air attack off Aberdeen (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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KING | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman GEORGE THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 288961. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Transvaal. 18th November, 1944. Age 23. Son of Hodger John Robert King and Elizabeth Mary King, of Frostenden, Suffolk. |
| 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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KIRBY | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman SAMUEL | |
LT/JX. 205645. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Pride. 16th June, 1944. Age 27. Son of Samuel and Sarah E. Kirby, of Anfield, Liverpool; husband of N. C. Kirby. |
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KIRK | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Lieut. ANTHONY | Motor Launch |
RNR. H.M.M.L. 109. 30th October, 1940. Age 26. Son of George Arthur and S. A. Kirk, of Bagley Wood, Berkshire. |
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KIRKLAND | Panel 7, Column 3. |
P.O. Steward JAMES NEIL MACKINNON | Yacht |
LT/JX. 242390. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Viva II. 8th May, 1941. Husband of Rosina Gladys Kirkland, of Bembridge, Isle of Wight. |
| 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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KLEISER | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman JOSEPH RICHARD | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/KX.130912. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2019. 19th September, 1943. Age 28. Son of Joseph and Margaret Kleiser, of Holyhead, Anglesey. |
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KNIGHT | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. TOM NORTON | |
LT/KX. 101207. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Dunraven Castle. 2nd March, 1943. Age 38. Son of Thomas and Mary Jane Knight; husband of Dorothy Knight, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
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KNIGHT | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Telegraphist DONALD | Motor Launch |
LT/IX. 298247. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1380. 1st May, 1944. Age 21. Son of William WaIter and Evelyn Knight, of Coventry. |
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KNOPP | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman HARRY | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/KX. 149345. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 8. 24th June, 1944. Age 31. Husband of Joyce Knopp, of Ockendon, Essex. |
| 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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KNOX | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Telegraphist CHARLES SCOTT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 344661. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler La Nantaise. 8th July, 1945. Age 22. Son of David H. Knox, and of Helen Knox, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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KREBS | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman EMMANUEL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 177172. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Son of Henry and Sarah Krebs, of Harrogate, Yorkshire. |
| 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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KUFAAS | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman LARS JAN | Whaler |
LT/IX. 124551. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 23. Son of Lars and Jakobine Kufaas, of Orkanger, Norway. |
| 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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KUMM | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman DENNIS WILLIAM | Whaler |
LT/JX. 175055. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 22. Son of Charles Ernest and Annie Kumm, of Worthing, Sussex. |
| 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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LACEY | Panel 11, Column 1. |
Act. Sub-Lieut. KENNETH DOUGLAS FRANCIS | |
RNR. H.M.S. Kai. 15th October, 1943. Age 21. Son of Eldred Francis Lacey and Dora May Lacey, of New Southgate, Middlesex. |
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LAING | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. ARTHUR LIVINGSTON | Trawler |
LT/KX. 138034. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 21. Son of Arthur and Christina Laing, of Torry, Aberdeen. |
| 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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LAIRD | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Second Hand DONALD SHAW | Drifter |
LT/IX. 241512. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th May, 1941. Son of William and Catherine Laird; husband of Elsie Dinah Laird, of Hull. |
| 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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LAKER | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN EDW ARD | Drifter |
LT/IX. 173522. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Reed. 7th November, 1940. Age 23. Son of John Edward and Edith Laker, of Shoreham-bySea, Sussex. |
| 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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LAMB | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/X.7057C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Leyland. 27th November, 1942. |
| 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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LAMBERT | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman GEORGE MURRAY | Trawler |
LT/X. 3977T. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Comet. 30th September, 1940. Age 28. Son of Martin J. and Madeline M. Lambert, of Hopeman, Morayshire; husband of Chrise Lambert, of Hopeman, Morayshire. |
| Notes or comments: ex Tamura, requisitioned September 1939 and converted to Decoy vessel, sunk by mine aff Falmouth (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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LAMBERT | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman GEOFFREY MICHAEL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 372610. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 20. Son of Harry and Margaret Lambert, of Lazenby, 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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LAMBERT | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. DANIEL | Trawler |
LT/KX. 131794. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 29. Son of Charles Lambert, and of Florence. Ada Lambert, of Bedminster, Somerset. |
| 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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LAMBLEY | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX 125075. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 33. Son of Arthur and Christiana Lambley; husband of Eileen Lambley, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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LAMPLOUGH | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman JAMES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 197250. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Ceylonite (on loan to U.S. Navy). 15th June, 1942. Son of James Samuel and Beatrice Lamplough; husband of Ann Lamplough, of Hull. |
| Notes or comments: Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, purchased November 1939, on loan with crew to U.S. Navy March 1942, mined in Chesapeake Bay (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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LANCASTER | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman WILFRED SKEAF | Trawler |
LT/KX. 111565. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Sea King. 9th October, 1940. Age 41. Son of George Skeaf Lancaster and Bertha Margaret Lancaster; husband of Neilie Lancaster, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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LANDER | Panel 13, Column 3. |
Sub-Lieut. CHARLES | Trawler |
RNVR. 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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LANGDON | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman CHARLES VICTOR MATTHEW | Drifter |
LT/JX.173367. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th May, 1941. Age 41. Son of Charles and Amy Langdon; husband of Miriam Langdon, of Dagenham, Essex. |
| 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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LANGFORD | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman RICHARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 241079. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. |
| 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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LANGRIDGE | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman MAURICE GEORGE | Drifter |
LT/JX. 176573. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Harvest Gleaner. 28th October, 1940. Age 22. Son of Frederick George and Gertrude Elizabeth Langridge, of Newhaven, Sussex. |
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LARDER | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 177544. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. |
| 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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LARGE | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. DOUGLAS | Trawler |
LT/KX. 103558. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pelton. 23rd December, 1940. Age 23. Son of H. T. and Mary C. Large, of Washwood Heath, Birmingham. |
| 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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LARK | Panel 13, Column 2. |
Steward RONALD ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/LX. 27884. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 31. Son of William Alfred and Rose Lark, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Edith Kathleen Lark, of Lowestoft. |
| 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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LARSEN | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Second Hand ARTHUR MARTIN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 210907. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 27. Son of Peter and Julia Larsen, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire; husband of M. M. Larsen, of Cleethorpes. |
| 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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LARSON | Panel 16, Column 1. |
P.O. Cook STANLEY Hi\ROLD | Trawler |
LT/ MX. 87244. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Age 39. Son of Ernest Harold and Florence Larson, of Hull; husband of Florence Elvira Larson, of Hull. |
| 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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LASLETT | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. ERNEST | Twin Screw Steamship |
LT/JX.. 257748. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Briac. 12th March, 1942. Age 38. Son of Ernest Augustine and Lucy Laslett, of Blackley, Manchester. |
| 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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LAVERACK | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman JAMES W. | Trawler |
LT/X. 20905A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 24. Son of William and Maud Laverack, Withernsea, 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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LAW | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 106824. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Monteith. 24th September, 1940. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, based at Portland, attacked by bomber off Portland 24th September 1940 and six killed, from 1941 employed as submarine escort and returned to owners November 1945 (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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LAWRENCE | Panel 8, Column. |
Skipper ALEXANDER | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942. Age 32. Husband of Jessie Ann Lawrence, of Aberdeen. |
| 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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LAWRENCE | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 532785. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 37. Son of John and Alice Ann Lawrence; husband of Nellie Lawrence, of Withington, Manchester. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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LAWSON | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. JAMES EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/KX. 100837. 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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LAWSON | Panel 17, Column 2. . . |
Sto. GEORGE ALBERT | |
LT/KX. 141049. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Vervain. 20th February, 1945. Age 28. Son of John Louis and Matilda Fayle Lawson, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
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LAYBOURN | Panel 13, Column 2. |
Lieut. GERALD VINCENT | Motor Minesweeper |
Mentioned in Despatches. RNVR. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 172. 23rd July, 1944. Age 34. Son of Harry Vincent Laybourn and Elizabeth Laybourn; husband of Daisy May Layboum, of Tamworth, Staffordshire. |
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LAYCOCK | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 186683. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Argyllshire. 1st June, 1940. Age 25. Son of John Edward and Martha Laycock, of Brighton, Sussex; husband of Rose Alice Laycock, of Brighton. |
| 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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LE NORMAND | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman EDWARD CHARLES | Drifter |
LT/JX. 202160. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Unicity. 31st January, 1942. Age 19. Son of Alfred Joseph and Catherine Le Normand, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. |
| 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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LE NOURY | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Ldg. Sea. JOHN SAMUEL | Motor Launch |
LT/JX. 202293. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1163. 4th January, 1945. Age 31. Son of John Hubert Vaudin Le Noury and Edith Maud Le Noury, of Vale, Guernsey, Channel Islands. |
| 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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LEACH | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Cook THOMAS HENRY | Whaler |
LT/MX. 83280. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 20. Son of George William and Dorothy Leach; husband of Emily M. Leach, of Notting Hill, London. |
| 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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LEDGER | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. CYRIL | Yacht |
LT/KX. 113598. 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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LEE | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/X. 18212A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to the U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 30. Son of John and Margaret Lee, of Garrabost, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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LEE | Panel 16, Column 1. |
Ldg. Steward ARTHUR EDWARD | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/LX. 29242. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. Age 36. Son of Arthur and May Lee; husband of Bessie Gertrude Lee, of Dagenham, 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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LEE | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Ch. Engineman FRANK, DSM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 98276, RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 33. Son of Frank and Hannah Lee, of Hull; husband of Ada Lee, of Hull. |
| 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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LEE | Panel 17, Column 3. |
Ldg. Cook EDWARD DOUGLAS | Trawler |
LT/MX. 88009. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. |
| 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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LEECH | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman REGINALD ROBERT MACDONALD | Whaler |
LT/KX. 116199. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 33. Son of William Richard and Martha Leech, of Fleetwood, Lancashire; husband of Gladys Evelyn Leech, of Fleetwood, 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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LEES | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman. JAMES SOMERVILLE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 194326. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 24. Son of James Somerville Lees and Jeanie McBryde Lees, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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LEGG | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 116382. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 23. Son of Alexander and Hannah E. Legg, of Bootle, Lancashire. |
| 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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LEGGETT | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman JOSEPH THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 195758: RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Apollo. 22nd November, 1941. Age 20. Son of William Thomas Leggett and Edith Rosina Louise Leggett, of Hakin, Pembrokeshire. |
| 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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LEIPER | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman JOHN JAMES | Trawler |
LT/X. 6020ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler St. Achilleus. 1st June, 1940. Age 35. Son of John James Leiper and of Elizabeth Agnes Leiper (nee Morrison); husband of Christina Royal Leiper (nee McGhee), of Torry, Aberdeen. |
| 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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LEIPER | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Skipper THOMAS ORFORD FLETCHER | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Kingston Ceylonite (on loan to U.S. Navy). 15th June, 1942. Age 29. |
| Notes or comments: Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, purchased November 1939, on loan with crew to U.S. Navy March 1942, mined in Chesapeake Bay (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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LEIRA | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman KNUT SYRRE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 114065. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Native of 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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LEMAN | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. ALBERT CHARLES | |
LT/JX. 215632. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Ouzel. 3rd November, 1941. Age 34. Husband of Louisa Leman, of King's Lynn, Norfolk. |
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LEMKEY | Addenda Panel. |
Lieutenant CHARLES ALFRED | Trawler |
Mentioned in Despatches. RNR. H.M.S. Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 40. Son of Charles and Jessie Lemkey; husband of Lydia Lemkey, of South Shields, Co. Durham. |
| 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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LENNON | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. JOHN | Drifter |
LT/KX. 106886. 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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LENNON | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Telegraphist ROBERT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 401369. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. |
| 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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LEONARD | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman WALTER | Drifter |
LT/KX. 102505. 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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LESLIE | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Second Hand HAROLD | |
LT/JX. 202118. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Paragon. 3rd November, 1940. |
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LEWIS | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOSEPH WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/X. 20325A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Argyllshire. 1st June, 1940. Age 24. Son of Joseph and Grace Lewis, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Doris Lewis, of Grimsby. |
| 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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LEWIS | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. SAMUEL SNELL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 170661. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Argyllshire. 1st June, 1940. Age 27. Son of Thomas Snell Lewis and Elizabeth Martha Lewis, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire; husband of Madge Vera Lewis, of Tenby. |
| 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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LEWIS | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. ARTHUR | Trawler |
LT/X. 19275A. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Marsoma. 4th August, 1940. Age 21. Son of A. and Sarah Lewis, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, sunk by mine off Cromarty (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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LEWIS | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. FREDERICK | Trawler |
LT/JX. 221379. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stamp. 14th October, 1940. Age 40. Son of John and Ellen Lewis, of Heswall, Cheshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Hired for anti-submarine duties August 1939, sunk by mine in Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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LEWIS | Panel 4, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 211560. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Capricornus. 7th December, 1940. Age 32. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Lewis, of Baie Verte, White Bay, Newfoundland. |
| Notes or comments: Native of Newfoundland |
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LEWIS | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. PERCY GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 213523. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Rubens. 21st February, 1941. Age 33. Son of Ellen Martha Lewis; husband of Bessie Maud Lewis, of Newton Flotman, Norfolk. |
| 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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LEWIS | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman ALFRED HOWELL | Trawler |
LT/X. 392EU. RNR. (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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LEWIS | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Ldg. Cook WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/MX. 83350. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Stonehaven. 2nd October, 1942. Age 39. Son of William and Martha Lewis, of Belfast; husband of Sarah Lewis, of Belfast. |
| 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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LEWIS | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. FRANK FERGUSON | Trawler |
LT/KX. 133043. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Hailsham. 27th February, 1943. Age 33. Son of Frank Ferguson Lewis and Alexandrina Lewis, of Edinburgh; husband of Mary Lawson Lewis, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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LEWIS | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman DAVID RICHARD DOUGHTON | Trawler |
LT/JX. 205200. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ortasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 31. Son of Edward Thomas Lewis and Elizabeth Sarah Ann Lewis, of Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire; husband of Frances Rowlands Lewis, of Aberystwyth. |
| 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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LEWIS | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Ord. Tel. BENJAMIN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 428399. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 19. Son of Daniel T. and Annie Howell Lewis, of Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire. |
| 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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LEWIS | Panel 17, Column 3. |
Cook DOUGLAS JOHN | Motor Launch |
LT/MX. 109628. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1163. 4th January, 1945. Age 22. Son of Ernest William and Ethel Mary Lewis, of Margate, Kent. |
| 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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LIBBY | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Second Hand SAMUEL | Yacht |
LT/JX. 225658. 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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LIDDLE | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 109958. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Transvaal. 18th November, 1944. Age 34. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Valentine Liddle; husband of Dorothy I. Liddle, of Cuckfield, Sussex. |
| 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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LILLEY | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. JAMES | Trawler |
LT/KX. 102870. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ortasy. 22nd October, 1943. Age 24. Son of William and Mary Lilley, of Hull. |
| 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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LINDO | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman HUGH | Yacht |
LT/X20907A. RNR. (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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LINES | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. ALBERT | Trawler |
LT/KX. 116 84. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. |
| 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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LINFIELD | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. FREDERICK ROY | Whaler |
RNR. Son of Fredrick William and Mary Linfield; H.M.S. Sotra. 29th January, 1942. Age 31. Husband of Alice Cameron Minter Linfield, of Durban, Natal, South Africa. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (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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LING | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman RICHARD SAMUEL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 177029. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cap D'Antifer. 13th February, 1944. Age 30. Son of Samuel and Jessie Ling; husband of Dorothy Irene Ling, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
| 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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LINNEY | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman GEORGE SCOTT | Trawler |
LT/X. 10099S. RNR. (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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LINTON | Panel 4, Column 1. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/KX. 101342. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Thuringia. 28th May, 1940. Age 20. Son of Henry and RM. Linton, of Workington, Cumberland. |
| 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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LISNEY | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Sto. RONALD WILLIAM GEORGE | |
LT/KX. 141693. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Vervain. 20th February, 1945. Age 21. Son of William J ames Lisney and Lilian Maud Lisney, of Brockley, Lewisham, London. |
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LLOYD | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JAMES ARTHUR | Trawler |
LT/JX. 110660. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940. Age 22. Son of Sidney Lloyd, and of Winifred Lloyd, of Erwood, Brecknockshire. |
| 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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LLOYD | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/KX. 116097. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Loch Inver. 22nd September, 1940. Age 38. Husband of Mary Ann Lloyd, of Hull. |
| 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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LLOYD | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/KX. 533017. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Transvaal. 18th November, 1944. Age 30. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lloyd, of Rotherham, Yorkshire; husband of Rosalie Lloyd, of Rotherham, Yorkshire. |
| 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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LLOYD-JONES | Panel 16, Column 2. |
Lieut. THOMAS HENRY | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 35. Son of Llewelyn and Eva Mary Lloyd-Jones, of Port Dinorwic, Caernarvonshire. |
| 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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LOADER | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman NEVILLE CECIL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 240876. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941. Age 26. Son of George and Olive Loader; husband of Evelyn Loader, of Hinckley, Leicestershire. |
| 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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LOADES | Panel 1, Column 3.. |
Second Hand ROBERT WILSON | Trawler |
LT/X 53SC. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940. Age 31. Husband of Elsie Loades, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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LOBBAN | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. CHARLES | Trawler |
LT/X. 4043T. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Argyllshire. 1st June, 1940. Age 29. Son of William and Helen Jane Lobban, of Buckie, Banffshire. |
| 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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LOCKE | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Ord. Sea. RAYMOND | Shore Establishment |
LT/JX. 230209. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Europa. 19th August, 1941. Age 21. Son of Augustus and Patience Locke, of Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. |
| Notes and Comments: Europa was headquarters and central depot of RNPS at Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft. |
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LOCKERBIE | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman JAMES ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/JX. 300700. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. Age 19. Son of James and Eveline Lockerbie, of Leeds, Yorkshire. |
| 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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LOCKHART | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman GODFREY MORGAN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 228112. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Kelt. 5th December, 1942. Age 27. Son of Henry and Muriel Alice Lockhart, of Barry Island, Glamorgan. |
| Notes or comments: Recorded CWGC as HMS Kelt. Purchased RN August 1939 and converted A/S. Operating off west coast Africa 1942 on escort. Severely damaged alongside in Lagos in December when tanker exploded destroying 3 other trawlers, Bengali, Canna and Spaniard. Sold 1945. (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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LONG | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman CHARLES JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 164330. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cayton Wyke. 8th July, 1940. Age 20. Son of Robert Elija and Violet May Long, of Gorleston, Norfolk. |
| 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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LONGDEN | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Ord. Seaman Steward JACK EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 210383. 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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LONGDEN | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Seaman ERNEST | |
LT/JX. 335890. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Eland. 7th August, 1945. Age 22. Son of Ernest andEdith Longden, of Macclesfield, Cheshire. |
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LONGHURST | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Seaman ALBERT FREDERICK GEORGE | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 255536. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 68. 4th February, 1945. Age 34. Son of WaIter Ernest and Ann Elizabeth Longhurst, of Ipswich, Suffolk; husband of Muriel Vera Longhurst, of Ipswich. |
| 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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LOUKES | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman RONALD THOMAS | Whaler |
LT/KX. 110041. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ullswater. 19th November, 1942. Age 22. Son of Arthur and Gertrude Mary Loukes, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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LOUND | Panel 7, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. JESSE EDMUND | Trawler |
LT/KX. 120664. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941. Age 25. Son of Alfred Milner Lound and Rose Lound, of Martleet, Hull. |
| 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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LOVE | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman ERNEST W ALTER | Yacht |
LT/JX. 280040. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Age 38. Son of Walter and Ethel Elizabeth Love, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
| 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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LOVIS | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Skipper ALFRED MANNING, DSC | Drifter |
RNR. H.M. Drifter Golden Sunbeam. 19th August, 1942. Age 52. Son of John Osbome Lovis and Emma Lovis; husband of Gladys Hilda Lovis, of Brixham, Devon. |
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LOWE | Panel 16, Column 3. |
P.O. CYRIL GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 301287. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kurd. 10th July, 1945. Age 22. Son of William Edward and Sarah Winterson Lowe, of Warley, Oldbury, Worcestershire. |
| 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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LOWES | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. LESLlE | Trawler |
LT/JX 279086. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Canna. 5th December, 1942. Age 19. Son of Richard Huntley Lowes and Mary Jane Lowes, of Heaton, Northumberland. |
| Notes or comments: Isles class, ordered April 1940, launched November 1940, 1942 lost in accidental explosion at Lagos, Nigeria (Toghill: Trawlers1) |
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LOWNIE | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman CHARLES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 529345. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 19. Son of Charles and Helen Lownie, of Gourdon, Kincardineshire. |
| 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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LOWRIE | Panel 11, Column 1. |
Second Hand ROBERT | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 174428. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 33. 20th July, 1943. Age 31. Son of David and Isabella Lowrie, of St. Monance, Fife. |
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LOWRY | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. HARRY CARPENTER | Trawler |
LT/KX. 105731. 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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LUMSDEN | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman ALEXANDER JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 209148. 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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LUNN | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Ch. Engineman GEORGE ARTHUR | Trawler |
LT/KX. 97921. 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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LYMAN | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman GORDON BONNER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 223321. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Wakefield. 29th July, 1944. Son of Percy and Hephzibah Lyman, of Pattishall, Northamptonshire; husband of Lila Lyman. |
| 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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LYNCH | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman SIDNEY | Trawler |
LT/SR 55726. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. |
| 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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LYON | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman BERTRAM OSWALD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 264583. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Age 33. Son of John Robert Lyon and of Elizabeth Petrie Lyon (nee Paterson), of Aberdeen; husband of Janet Elizabeth Lyon (nee Hay), of Aberdeen. |
| 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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LYTTON | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. HENRY | Trawler |
LT/KX. 142108. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 41. Son of Robert and Mary Lytton; husband of Doreen Lytton, of Paddington, London. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MAcANGUS | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 196771. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fleming. 24th July, 1940. Age 20. Son of Alexander and Annie MacAngus, of Hilton, Fearn, Ross and Cromarty. |
| 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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MACAULAY | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 177682. 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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MACAULAY | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman ALLAN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 278852. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 37. Son of Norman and Mary MacAulay, of Grosebay, Harris, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACAULEY | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman MURDO | Trawler |
LT/X. 7770c. RNR. (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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MACBEATH | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. NORMAN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 265176. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Son of John and Christina MacBeath, of Strathcarron, Ross and Cromarty. |
| 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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MACDERMID | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman DONALD ALEXANDER | |
LT/JX. 242837. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cava. 2nd May, 1943. Age 34. Son of Donald and Mary MacDermid, of Harris, Isle of Lewis. |
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MACDONALD | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM ANGUS | Trawler |
D/X.7749C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers. 2nd June, 1940. Son of George and Margaret Macdonald, of Lochs, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seamen MURDO DONALD | Trawler |
LT/X. 1O896B. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Waveflower. 22nd October, 1940. Age 24. Son of Murdo and Jessie Macdonald, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman MURDO ANGUS | Trawler |
LT/X. 17759A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Relonzo. 20th January, 1941. Age 26. Son of Murdo and Margaret Macdonald, of Lochs, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman ALLAN | Yacht |
LT/JX. 186672. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Viva Il. 8th May, 1941. Age 20. Son of Allan and Marion MacDonald, of Glasgow. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. WILLIAM GRAHAM LOUDON | Trawler |
LT/JX. 207672. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Beech. 22nd June, 1941. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. KENNETH | Whaler |
LT/X. 18031A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.S. Sotra. 29th January, 1942. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (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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MACDONALD | Panel 9, . Column 1. |
Seaman ANGUS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 225560. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 30. Son of Donald and Cathrina Macdonald, of Bernera, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman DONALD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 280502. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman ANGUS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 252714. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Avanturine. 1st December, 1943. Age 32. Son of Annie Macdonald, of Sanday Island, Inner Hebrides. |
| 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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MACDONALD | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman NORMAN | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. .RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 7. 18th June, 1944. Age 36. Son of John and Mary Ann Macdonald, of Carloway, Isle of Lewis. |
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MACDONALD | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman DONALD JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 400447. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Vidonia. 7th October, 1944. Age 21. Son of Kenneth and Effie Macdonald, of Shader, Isle of Lewis. |
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MACDONNELL | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Sub-Lieut. JACK | Trawler |
RNVR. 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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MacINNES | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN | Trawler |
LT/X. 18435A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Stella Sirius. 25th September, 1940. Age 36. Son of Bessie MacInnes. |
| 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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MACIVER | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman DONALD MURDO | Trawler |
LT/JX. 400546. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 20. Son of Angus Lewis MacIver and Marion MacIver, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MACKAY | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman DONALD HENRY | Trawler |
LT/X. 18129A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 24. Son of George D. and Hughina MacKay, of Balchreck, Sutherlandshire. |
| 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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MACKAY | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. DONALD | Trawler |
LT/X. 7810C. RNR. (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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MACKAY | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/X. 7540C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Charles Boyes. 25th May, 1940. Age 31. Son of Kenneth and Henrietta MacKay, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACKAY | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 101739. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Myrtle. 14th June, 1940. Age 21. Son of Joseph and Mary Jessie MacKay, of Buckie, Banffshire. |
| 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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MACKAY | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman MALCOLM JOHN | Trawler |
LT/X. 18047A. 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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MACKAY | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman NORMAN | |
LT/JX..166031. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Manistee. 24th February, 1941. |
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MACKAY | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. DAVID | Yacht |
LT/KX. 125371. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Age 40. Son of David and Isabella MacKay, of Portmahomack, Ross and Cromarty. |
| 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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MACKAY | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. IAN | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/KX. 160796. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 170. 12th October, 1944. Age 23. Son of Angus and Jessie Mackay, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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MACKENZIE | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman JOHN | Trawler |
LT/X. 8025C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Daneman. 9th May, 1943. Age 32. Son of John and Annie MacKenzie, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACKENZIE | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 281925. . RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 21. Son of Norman MacKenzie, and of Annie MacKenzie, of Pormalong, Isle of Skye. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MACKENZIE | Panel 17, Column 3. |
Steward ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/LX. 30091. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Husband of Elizabeth MacKenzie, of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. |
| 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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MACKIE | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman JAMES | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/KX. 114173. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 37. Son of James and Mary MacKie; husband of Jessie S. MacKie, of St. Andrews, Fife. |
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MACKINNON | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. NORMAN | Trawler |
LT/X. 20517A. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Ceylonite (on loan to U.S. Navy). 15th June, 1942. Age 21. Son of Roderick and Marion MacKinnon, of Marvig, Isle of Lewis. |
| Notes or comments: Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, purchased November 1939, on loan with crew to U.S. Navy March 1942, mined in Chesapeake Bay (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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MACKRILL | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM HENRY | Trawler |
LT/X. 19533A. RNR. (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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MACLEAN | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman ANGUS | Trawler |
LT/X. 18204A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Red Gauntlet. 5th August, 1943. Age 27. Son of. Angus and Catherin, e Maclean, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis; husband of Ethel Ruby Maclean, of Ipswich, Suffolk. |
| 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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MACLEOD | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/X. 17752A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Fifeshire. 20th February, 1940. Age 28. Son of William and Johanna Macleod, of Back, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACLEOD | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. ANGUS | Trawler |
LT/X. 18436A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Crestflower. 19th July, 1940. Age 35. Son of Roderick and Christina MacLeod, of Gravir, Isle of Lewis; husband of Margaret MacLeod, of Gravir. |
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MACLEOD | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman MURDO JOHN | Minelayer |
LT/JX. 173143. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 24. Son of John and Christy Macleod, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACLEOD | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 280500. 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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MACLEOD | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman MALCOLM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 192159. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 27. Son of Malcolm and Annie MacLeod, of Gravir, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MACLEOD | Panel 13, Column 3. |
Second Hand DONALD | |
LT/JX. 177685. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. St. Angelo. 12th August, 1944. Son of Angus and Annie MacLeod, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
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MACPHERSON | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Lieut. MARTIN HUGH. | Trawler |
RN. H.M. Trawler Northern Rover. 5th November, 1939. Age 39. Son of Dr. William Hugh Macpherson and Maud Hollick Macpherson; husband of Third Officer Florence Macpherson, WRNS., lost on active service when serving in H.M.S. Cormorant on 19th August, 1941. |
| 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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MACPHERSON | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/X. 6067ES. RNR. (Patrol Service). 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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MacQUARRIE | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman HUGH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 202237. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 27. Son of Lachlan and Margaret MacQuarrie, of Tobermoray, Isle of Mull. |
| 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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MACRITCHIE | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman MURDO | Trawler |
LT/X. 7309C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Roche Bonne. 7th April, 1941. Son of Kenneth and Colina MacRitchie, of Gravir, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MADDERS | Panel 4, Column 3. |
Sub-Lieut. RICHARD GEORGE | Trawler |
RNVR. French Ship Jean Frederic. 2nd May, 1941. Age 26. Son of George and Margery Florence Madders, of Sanderstead, Surrey. |
| Notes or comments: French trawler, seized July 1940 at Falmouth, auxilliary patrol vessel, sunk by aircraft off Prawl Point, English Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MADDOCK | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 264445. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ganilly. 5th July, 1944. Age 39. Son of Samuel John and Isobella Maddock, of Liverpool; husband of Frances Maddock, of Liverpool. |
| Notes and Comments: Isles class trawler, minesweeping duties, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MADIN | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Ldg. Sea. GEORGE | Shore Establishment |
LT/6911C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.S. Europa. 28th November, 1945. Age 44. Husband of Lilian Madin, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Europa was headquarters and central depot of RNPS at Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft. |
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MADSEN | Panel 9, Column 3. |
Engineman JAKOB | Whaler |
LT/KX. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. |
| 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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MAHONEY | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Seaman STANLEY GILBERT | Yacht |
LT/JX. 217858. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Son of Alfred Israel Mahoney and Susan Mahoney, of Fogo, Newfoundland. |
| Notes or comments: purchased into RN September 1939 as armed boarding vessel, sunk by U-374 off Gibraltar. (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2). Native of Newfoundland |
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MAHY | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. JOHN | |
LT/KX. 100577. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Ouzel. 3rd November, 1941. |
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MAIN | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Seaman ALEXANDER KING | Trawler |
LT/X. 18718A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler James Ludford. 14th December, 1939. Age 23. Son of William and Jessie King Main, of Burghead, Morayshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Mersey class trawler, minesweeping duites 1939, sunk by mine in Tyne area (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MAIN | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Second Hand ROBERT MEIN | Trawler |
LT/X. 80SB. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Stella Sirius. 25th September, 1940. Son of Alex M. and C. M. Main. |
| 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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MAIN | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman JAMES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 206411. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Beech. 22nd June, 1941. |
| 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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MAINS | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Seaman ALAN MICHAEL | Motor Launch |
LT/JX. 400070. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.M.L. 1163. 4th January, 1945. |
| 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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MAIR | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Skipper JOHN DOUGAL | Drifter |
RNR. H.M. Drifter Comfort. 29th May, 1940. Age 49. Son of Alexander and Alice Mair; husband of Miriam Mair, of Aberdeen. |
| Notes or comments: hired as dan layer December 1939, rammed in error by minesweeper Lydd off Dover (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MAIR | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 190015. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Emilion. 24th July, 1940. Age 27. Son of Catherine Mair, of Portknockie, Banffshire. |
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MAIR | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Second Hand WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 185770. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Marsona. 4th August, 1940. |
| Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, sunk by mine off Cromarty (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MAIR | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/X. 463EU. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Gulfoss. 9th March, 1941. Age 32. Husband of Mary Mair, of Buckie, Banffshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Purchased as minesweeper August 1939, sunk by mine in the Channel (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MAIR | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. WILLIAM | Yacht |
LT/JX. 280080. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Rosabelle. 11th December, 1941. Age 20. Son of James and Relen J. Mair, of Fleetwood, Lancashire. |
| 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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MAIR | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. WILLIAM GEORGE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 265236. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Cathan (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th April, 1942. Age 21. Son of Alexander and Annie Jane Mair, of Whitehills Banffshire. |
| 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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MAIR | Addenda Panel. |
Skipper JOSEPH | |
RNR. H.M.S. Chinthe. 16th August, 1945. Age 30. Son of Joseph and Sarah Mair; husband of Jane Buckley Mair, of Leicester. |
| Notes or comments: Ambiguity: Chinthe was Naval shore base at Rangoon 01/04/45 to 30/11/45; Chinthe also recorded as 668 ton Tug hired as M/S in WW2 (Warlow: Shore Est. RN; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MALLETT | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. JAMES MILTON | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 532617. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2077. 25th October, 1944. Age 19. Son of Harold James Mallett and Leah Catherine Mallett, of Cardiff. |
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MALLIBAND | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Ch. Engineman FRED | Trawler |
LT/332EU. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Marsona. 4th August, 1940. Age 44. Husband of Rose Annie Malliband, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. |
| Notes and Comments: Hired for minesweeping duties August 1939, sunk by mine off Cromarty (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MALLINDER | Panel 16, Column 1. |
Ldg. Steward HERBERT | Trawler |
LT/LX. 27640. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 25. Son of Herbert and Mary Lillian Mallinder, of Shepperton, Middlesex; husband of Sarah Mallinder. |
| 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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MALLOY | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman PATRICK JOSEPH | Whaler |
LT/JX. 280816. 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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MALTBY | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman MONTAGUE MARSHALL | Trawler |
LT/X. 18781A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Fleming. 24th July, 1940. |
| 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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MALTBY | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. FREDERICK FRANCIS | Trawler |
LT/X. 19197A. RN.R (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. Age 31. Son of John and Beatrice Maltby; husband of Kate Maltby, of Swansea. |
| 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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MANN | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman JAMES EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/KX. 116782. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Topaze. 20th April, 1941. Age 37. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Mann, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Rose Ella Mann, of Grimsby. |
| 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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MANN | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman DAVID | Trawler |
LT/KX. 125167. RN. Patrol Service. 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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MANN | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. FREDERICK | Trawler |
LT/KX. 107460. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 27. Son of Edward George and Annie Charlotte Mann, of Birmingham. |
| 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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MANSELL | Panel 16, Column 3. |
P.O. FREDERICK WILLlAM | |
LT/JX. 529689. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Dartmouth. 12th August, 1945. Age 69. Husband of Ethel Mansell, of Bacton, Suffolk. |
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MANSFIELD | Panel 8, Column 2. |
Second Hand GEORGE | Whaler |
LT/X. 19593A. RNR. (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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MANSON | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman ROBERT | Whaler |
LT/X. 20110A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.S. Sotra. 29th January, 1942. |
| Notes or comments: 313 ton whaler hired as minesweeper September 1939, sunk (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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MARCHANT | Panel 3, Column 1. |
Ord. Sea. THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 176751. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Cape Passaro. 23rd May, 1940. Age 22. Son of John William and Ellen Marchant, of Brighton, Sussex. |
| class="notes">Notes and Comments: requisitioned September 1939 and converted for minesweeping, joined 15th A/S Strike Force as leader based at Aberdeen, took part in Norwegian campaign April/May 1940, lost in air attack off Narvik. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MARGINSON | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. JAMES RONALD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 259871. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 28. Son of James Alfred and May Marginson; husband of Joan Marginson, of Northampton. |
| 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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MARLOW | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman FREDERICK NAYLOR RICHARD SON | Trawler |
LT/JX. 170590. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler St. Goran. 1st May, 1940. Age 39. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned in September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined the 15th A/S Strike Force based at Aberdeen, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, at Namsos hit by a bomb which demolished her bridge killing CO and others, 3rd May remaining crew rescued by H. M. Trawler Arab and the wounded transferred to HMS Carlisle, St. Goran scuttled. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Brookes: Prologue to War) |
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MARR | Panel 16, Column 3. |
Second Hand ANDREW SCOTT | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 185405. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 68. 4th February, 1945. |
| 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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MARR | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Seaman ROBERT BATHGATE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 375261. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 20. Son of Robert and Margaret Bathgate Marr, of Dunbar, East Lothian. |
| 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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MARRIOTT | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman GEORGE WILLlAM | Drifter |
LT/JX. 191615. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Uberty. 7th 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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MARRIOTT | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. DENNIS WILLlAM ARTHUR | Whaler |
LT/KX. 135686. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 20. Son of Arthur George and Ena Florence Marriott, of Far Cotton, Northamptonshire. |
| 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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MARRIOTT | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Engineman DAVID | Trawler |
LT/KX. 148971. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Hayburn Wyke. 2nd January, 1945. Age 29. Son of James Edward and Mary Elisebeth Marriott. |
| 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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MARSDEN | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. NORMAN TERRY | Trawler |
LT/KX. 101743. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 36. Son of William and Annie Marsden, of Birmingham. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 4, Column 1. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. WILLIAM DOUGLAS | Trawler |
LT/KX. 104048. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Juniper. 18th June, 1940. Age 20. Son of Leonard E. and Violet Marshall, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman HORACE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 170504. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Fleming. 24th July, 1940. Age 22. Son of John Thomas Marshall and Gertrude Ethel Marshall, of Hull; husband of Gertrude May Marshall, of Hull. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman DOUGLAS MURRAY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 185278. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pyrope. 12th August, 1940. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. SAMUEL imWARD | Minelayer |
LT/JX. 242460. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 21. Son of Samuel Edward and Margaret Marshall, of Chadwell St. Mary, Essex. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. WILLIAM | Minelayer |
LT/KX. 115352. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Van Meerlant. 4th June, 1941. Age 28. Son of Robert Sidney and Hannah Marshall, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman WETHERILL | Trawler |
LT/JX. 220622. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Northern Princess (on loan to U.S. Navy). 7th March, 1942. Age 25. Son of Wetherill and Ida Marshall; husband of Jinnie Marshall. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman ROBERT HUTCHINSON | Shore Establishment |
LT/JX. 193144. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Quebec. 19th August, 1942. Age 27. Son of George Herdman Marshall and Isabella Marshall; husband of Violet Marshall, of Herne Bay, Kent. |
| Notes or comments: HMS Quebec - Combined Training Centre at Inverary 1/9/1940-1/7/1946. (Warlow: Shore Est. RN). |
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MARSHALL | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. WILLIAM BROWN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 137243. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Jura. 7th January, 1943. Age 19. Son of George and Barbara Marshall, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 14, Column 3. |
Ord. Sea. ROBERT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 534122. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 19. Son of John and Mary Ann Marshall, of Norton-in-theMoors, Staffordshire. |
| 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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MARSHALL | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. JAMES | |
LT/KX. 160223. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Bonito. 6th October, 1944. Age 20. Son of Annie Marshall, of South Shields, Co. Durham. |
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MARSHALL | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman HENRY HARKER | Trawler |
LT/JX. 534094. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. |
| 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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MARSTON | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Ord. Tel. CLIFFORD EDWIN | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 383396. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 55. 10th July, 1944. Age 20. Son of Frederick and Alice Florence Marston, of Walthamstow, 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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MARTIN | Panel 3, Column 3. |
Sto. JOSEPH HENRY | Trawler |
LT/KX. 104229. RN. Patrol Service H.M. Trawler Sisapon. 12th June, 1940. Age 38. Son of Joseph Henry and Susannah Margaret Martin, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Hilda May Martin, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
| Requisitioned September 1939 for mine-sweeping duties, based at Grimsby (ungrouped), sunk by mine off Harwich (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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MARTIN | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOSEPH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 251498. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Dervish. 9th September, 1940. |
| Notes or comments: ex Norman, hired June 1940 and converted to auxilliary patrol vessel, sunk by mine off Humber (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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MARTIN | Panel 5, Column 3. |
Seaman ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/X. 7274c. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Keryado. 6th March, 1941. Age 31. Son of Donald and Christine Martin, of Shader, Isle of Lewis. |
| Notes or comments: French minesweeper seized in July 1940, sunk by mine in Channel (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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MARTIN | Panel 9, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. ARTHUR | Trawler |
LT/JX. 179427. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Notts County. 8th March, 1942. Age 33. Son of George and Elizabeth Ann Martin, of South Normanton, Derbyshire. |
| 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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MARTIN | Panel 13, Column 1. |
Ldg. Cook FREDERICK ALFRED | Trawler |
LT/MX. 83882. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Tervani. 7th February, 1943. Son of James R and Kate Martin; husband of Norah Martin, of Hull. |
| 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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MARTIN | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman WYNFORD | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 197038. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 70. 24th September, 1943. |
| 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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MARTIN | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/X. 1O894B. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Beryl. 25th December, 1943. Age 29. Son of Alexander and Dolina Martin, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MARTIN | Panel 14, Column 3. |
Ord. Sea. EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 355532. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pine. 31st January, 1944. Son of Joseph Martin, and of Annie Martin, of Bedlington, Northumberland. |
| 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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MARTIN | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Sigmn. ARTHUR CHARLES WILLIAM | British Yard Minesweeper |
LT/JX. 175541. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.B.Y. Minesweeper 2252. 2nd November, 1944. |
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MARTLAND | Panel 16, Column 1. |
Ldg. Cook JOHN | Trawler |
LT/MX. 84970. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pine. 31st January, 1944. Age 22. Son of John and Clara J. Martland, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire. |
| 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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MARVEN | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman NINO WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 280063. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Manor. 9th July, 1942. Son of Oliver James Marven and Gladys Mabel Marven, of Birmingham. |
| 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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MARWOOD | Panel 5, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. LEONARD | Drifter |
LT/JX. 205447. 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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MASON | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman HARRY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 200823. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 27. Husband of Rebecca Mason, of Belfast. |
| 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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MASON | Panel 8, Column 1. |
Lieut. JOHN KEMPTON | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Stella Capella. 19th March, 1942. Age 25. Son of John Richard and Etheldrede Mason, of Crouch End, Middlesex. . |
| 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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MASON | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman HAROLD | Trawler |
LT/JX. 195744. 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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MASON | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman ERIC | Shore Establishment |
LT/KX. 135829. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. President III. 11th November, 1943. Age 21. Son of James William and Christian Saxton Mason, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. |
| 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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MASON | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman STANLEY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 532715. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Pine. 31st January, 1944. Age 19. Son of Albert and Martha E. Mason, of Hindley, Lancashire. |
| 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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MASON | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman ROBERT JAMES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 185767. 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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MASON | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Engineman JOHN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 107942. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ebor Wyke. 2nd May, 1945. |
| 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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MASSEY | Panel 13, Column 1. |
Ldg. Cook JAMES EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/MX. 83586. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Adonis. 15th April, 1943. Age 33. Son of George and Elizabeth Massey, of Hendon, Middlesex; husband of Florence Massey, of Hendon. |
| 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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MATHESON | Panel 1, Column 1. |
Seaman ALEXANDER | Trawler |
LT/X. 7765C. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler James Ludford. 14th December, 1939. Age 31. Son of Norman and Kate Matheson, of Barvas, Isle of Lewis. |
| Notes and Comments: Mersey class trawler, minesweeping duites 1939, sunk by mine in Tyne area (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MATHESON | Panel 11, Column 2. |
Ldg. Sea. NEIL | Shore Establishment |
LT/X. 17918A. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.S. President III. 11th November, 1943. Age 27. Son of Peter and Annie Matheson, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. |
| 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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MATHIESON | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. JOHN | Barrage Balloon Vessel |
LT/KX. 132196. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Fratton. 18th August, 1944. Age 34. Son of Robert and Barbara Mathieson, of Juniper Green, Midlothian. |
| Notes or comments: The 757 ton vessel was attacked and sunk at Normandy by German manned torpedos (Marder - Pine Martin) |
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MATHIESON | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. DUGALD | Motor Minesweeper |
LT/KX. 533393. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Motor Minesweeper 117. 1st September, 1944. |
| 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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MATTHEWS | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman THOMAS | Drifter |
LT/JX. 174651. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Unicity. 31st January, 1942. |
| 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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MATTHEWS | Panel 15, Column 3. |
Sto. VALENTINE COLMAN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 116578. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lord Austin. 24th June, 1944. Age 30. Son of Francis William and Alice Matthews; husband of Doris Matthews, of East Kirkby, Nottinghamshire. |
| 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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MAXTED | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN EDWARD | Trawler |
LT/X 21710A. 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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MAY | Panel 2, Column 3. |
Seaman ROBERT | Trawler |
LT/JX. 105381. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Recoil. 28th September, 1940. Age 20. Son of John and Rose May; husband of Ethel May, of Bristol. |
| 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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MAY | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman KENDALL JOSEPH HENRY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 203606. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Ceylonite (on loan to U.S. Navy). 15th June, 1942. Husband of P. May. |
| Notes or comments: Hired September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, purchased November 1939, on loan with crew to U.S. Navy March 1942, mined in Chesapeake Bay (Toghill: Trawlers2) |
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MAYHEW | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. HENRY | Trawler |
LT/JX. 228136. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ormonde. 16th February, 1941. |
| 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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MAYNARD | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 106811. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Force. 27th June, 1941. |
| Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties February 1940, sunk by air attack off Norfolk Coast (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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MAYOR | Panel 15, Column 1. |
Ord. Sigmn. WILLIAM GORDON | Trawler |
LT/JX. 574439. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Birdlip. 13th June, 1944. Age 18. Son of Fred and Ellen Mayor, of Eccleston, ChorIey, Lancashire. |
| 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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MAZE | Panel 13, Column 3. |
Sub-Lieut. DOUGLAS | Trawler |
RNVR. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. |
| 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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McALLISTER | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Seaman WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 210387. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ellesmere. 24th February, 1945. Age 25. Son of John and Sarah J. F. McAllister, of Glasgow. |
| 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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McBURNEY | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Ord. Seaman-Steward REGINALD NEWTON | Trawler |
LT/LX. 27692. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Agate. 6th August, 1941. Age 29. Son of John Thomas McBurney and Gertrude McBurney; husband of Ada Maud McBurney, of Ipswich, Suffolk. |
| 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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McCAFFRAY | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman HUGH FRANCIS | Trawler |
LT/JX. 174522. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alouette. 19th September, 1942. Age 30. Son of Hugh and Maisie Fairweather McCaffrflY; husband of Jemima McCaffray. |
| 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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McCALLUM | Panel 5, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. JOHN DAVID | Trawler |
LT/JX. 167155. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Ormonde. 16th February, 1941. Age 20. Son of John and Helen McCallum, of Macduff, Banffshire. |
| 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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McCANN | Panel 6, Column 2. |
Ord. Sea. WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/JX. 210652. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Almond. 2nd February, 1941. Age 26. Son of William J. and Euphemia McCann, of Irvine, Ayrshire. |
| 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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McCARTNEY | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. ROBERT | Whaler |
LT/X. 1O261S. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 27. |
| 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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McCLOUD | Panel 12, Column 2. |
Engineman JOHN WILLIAM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 103113. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler William Stephen. 25th October, 1943. Age 46. Son of John William and Mary McCloud, of North Shields, Northumberland; husband of Jane Hannah McCloud, of North Shields. |
| Notes and Comments: ex Joseph Annison, requisitioned as William Stephen November 1939 and converted for minesweeping, sunk by E-boat off Cromer (Toghill:Trawlers 1/2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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McCONDACH | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman CHARLES JAMES | Drifter |
LT/KX. 100143. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Ocean Sunlight. 13th June, 1940. |
| Notes or comments: Hired for minesweeping duties November 1939, sunk by mine off Newhaven (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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McCOURT | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman JAMES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 601006. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Transvaal. 18th November, 1944. Age 19. Son of Patrick andMary J ane McCourt. |
| 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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McCOY | Panel 17, Column 1. |
Seaman JOHN | |
LT/JX. 242118. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Helicon. 17th September, 1945. Age 42. Son of Edward and Mary McCoy, of Fleetwood, Lancashire; husband of Lily McCoy, of Fleetwood. |
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McCRACKEN | Panel 17, Column 2. |
Sto. ALEXANDER | Whaler |
LT/KX. 112278. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Southern Flower. 3rd March, 1945. Age 25. Son of Alexander and Elizabeth McCracken, of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. |
| 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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McCREADY | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. IAN ROBERT, DSM | Trawler |
LT/KX. 115483, RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley. 11th December, 1941. Age 30. Son of Thomas and Annie McCready; husband of Theresa McCready, of Lurgan, Ca. Armagh, Northern Ireland. |
| 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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McCREATH | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. JAMES | Whaler |
LT/KX. 148264. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Sulla. 25th March, 1942. Age 19. Son of James and Margaret McCreath, of Girvan, Ayrshire. |
| 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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McCRINDLE | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. JOHN INGRAM | Trawler |
LT/7006c. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Stella Dorado. 1st June, 1940. |
| 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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McCRINDLE | Panel 9, Column 1. |
Seaman ALEXANDER ALLAN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 198997. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bedfordshire (on loan to U.S. Navy). 11th May, 1942. |
| 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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McCRORIE | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman HUGHES MCDlNES | Trawler |
LT/JX. 212761. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Franc Tireur. 25th September, 1943. Age 27. Son of James and Elizabeth McCrorie, of Girvan, Ayrshire. |
| 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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McDONALD | Panel 1, Column 3. |
Skipper ROBERT MACKAY | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler Waveflower. 21st October, 1940. Age 29. Son of Robert and Mary MacDonald; husband of Margaret MacDonald, of Falkirk, Stirlingshire. |
| 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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McDONALD | Panel 10, Column 3. |
Steward JAMES | Trawler |
LT/LX. 27611. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Alouette. 19th September, 1942. Age 22. Son of Adam and Mary Jane McDonald, of Middlesbrough. |
| 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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McDONALD | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. THOMAS | Trawler |
LT/KX. 106454. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Horatio. 7th January, 1943. Age 34. Son of Martin and Mary McDonald, of Liverpool. |
| 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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McDONALD | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman RODERICK | Yacht |
LT/JX. 222261. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Aelda. 7th November, 1943. |
| Notes or comments: 47 ton yacht, hired October 1939, lost 6th November 1943 (no cause, no details of duties) (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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McDONNELL | Panel 3, Column 2. |
Engineman JOHN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 97926. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 38. Husband of Olive Alexandra McDonnell, 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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McDOUGALL | Panel 4, Column 3. |
Lieut. (E) ALLAN | Yacht |
RNVR. H.M. Yacht Viva Il. 8th May, 1941. Age 40. Son of Donald Campbell McDougall and Margaret McDougaIl; husband of Frances Ann McDougall, of Bitterne, Hampshire. |
| 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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McDOUGALL | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN | Trawler |
LT/JX. 534236. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 20. Son of John and Clara McDougall, of Birdholme, Derbyshire. |
| 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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McEUNE | Panel 6, Column 3. |
Engineman JOHN FREDERICK | Trawler |
LT/KX. 107954. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Force. 27th June, 1941. Age 46. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. McEune; husband of Susan Jane McEune, of Colney Heath, Hertfordshire. |
| Notes and Comments: hired for minesweeping duties February 1940, sunk by air attack off Norfolk Coast (Colledge: Ships RN Vol2) |
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McFARLANE | Panel 15, Column 2. |
Engineman CHARLES MURPHY | Trawler |
LT/KX. 125125. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 39. Son of Gabriel McFarlane and of Mary McFarlane (nee Murphy); husband of Fanny McFarlane, of Edinburgh. |
| 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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McGARROL | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman ALEXANDER | Whaler |
LT/JX. 280663. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Maaloy. 27th March, 1944. Son of Robert McGarrol, and of Jeannie C. McGarrol, of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. |
| 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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McGINN | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Sto. 2nd Cl. WILLIAM KERR | Whaler |
LT/KX. 145988. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Shera. 9th March, 1942. Age 24. Son of David and Jean McGinn; husband of Margaret McGinn, of Ardrossan, Ayrshire. |
| 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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McGINN | Panel 14, Column 2. |
Seaman HUGH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 305657. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Colsay. 2nd November, 1944. Age 27. Son of John and Rosena McGinn, of Irvine, Ayrshire. |
| 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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McGINTY | Panel 12, Column 3. |
Sto. HUGH | Trawler |
LT/KX. 145507. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Adonis. 15th April, 1943. Age 20. Son of Andrew and Jessie McGinty, of Crookedholm, Ayrshire; husband of Susan Campbell McGinty. |
| 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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McGRATH | Panel 10, Column 2. |
Cook STEPHEN | Trawler |
LT/MX. 84379. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Laertes. 25th July, 1942. Son of Patrick and Kate McGrath. |
| 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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McGUIGAN | Panel 1, Column 2. |
Lieut.-Comdr. WILLIAM CLARKE | Trawler |
RNR. H.M. Trawler St. Goran. 30th April, 1940. Age 36. Son of John and Isabel McGuigan, of Belfast; husband of Lucy McGuigan, of Belfast. |
| Notes or comments: requisitioned in September 1939 and converted for anti-submarine duties, joined the 15th A/S Strike Force based at Aberdeen, 1940 took part in Norwegian campaign April/May, at Namsos hit by a bomb which demolished her bridge killing CO and others, 3rd May remaining crew rescued by H. M. Trawler Arab and the wounded transferred to HMS Carlisle, St. Goran scuttled. (Toghill: Trawlers2; Colledge: Ships RN Vol2; Brookes: Prologue to War) |
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McGUIRE | Panel 2, Column 1. |
Ldg. Sea. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/X. 9436B. RNR. (Patrol Service). H.M. Trawler Kingston Cornelian. 5th January, 1940. Age 27. Son of John Conning McGuire and Euphamia McGuire, of Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire. |
| 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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McHAFFIE | Panel 2, Column 2. |
Seaman JOHN FORSYTH | Trawler |
LT/JX. 166984. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Argyllshire. 9th March, 1940. Age 24. Son of James and Ann McHaffie, of Aberdeen. |
| 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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McHUGH | Panel 11, Column 3. |
Seaman AUGUSTINE LAWRENCE | Trawler |
LT/JX. 229210. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler Bredon. 8th February, 1943. |
| 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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McINERNEY | Panel 10, Column 1. |
Sto. MICHAEL | Whaler |
LT/KX. 105449. RN. Patrol Service. H.M.S. Cocker. 4th June, 1942. |
| 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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McINNES | Panel 7, Column 3. |
Seaman-Steward JOHN | Yacht |
LT/JX. 199153. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Yacht Janetha IV. 23rd January, 1941. Age 45. Son of Donald and Catherine McInnes. |
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McINTOSH | Panel 7, Column 1. |
Sto. ALEXANDER | Drifter |
LT/KX. 136689. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Drifter Boy Andrew. 9th November, 1941. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann McIntosh, of Bridge-of-Dee, Aberdeenshire. |
| 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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McINTYRE | Panel 17, Column 3. |
Sto. JOHN | Trawler |
LT/KX. 144240. RN. Patrol Service. H.M. Trawler La Nantaise. 8th July, 1945. Age 24. Son of John McIntyre, and of Mary McIntyre, of Pumpherston, Midlothian. |
| Notes or comments: ex St. Arcadius, purchased August 1939 and converted for ant |
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