Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Evening Express October 1939
The sinking of H.M.S. Royal Oak at Scapa flow due to enemy action , and continuing Merchant shipping losses feature heavily in October .
Stoker 1 Cornelius Curtin P/KX 88327 k.i.a 14/10/1939 H.M.S. Royal Oak he is remembered at the Portsmouth Memorial Panel 35 Column 1. Ordinary seaman Christopher Maher P/SSX 27543 k.i.a 14/10/1939 aged 19 he is remembered at the Portsmouth Memorial Panel 34 Column 1 .
Ordinary seaman Arthur Kempster P/SSX 27412 k.i.a. 14/10/1939 aged 19 he is remembered at the Portsmouth Memorial Panel 34 Column 1 . Boy 1 Fred Hughes P/JX157826 k.i.a. 14/10/1939 H.M.S. Royal Oak aged 17 he is remembered at the Portsmouth Memorial Panel 34 Column 2. Gwynne Edwards survived.
Steward John Howard k.i.a. 17/10/1939 aged 50. S.S. Yorkshire he is remembered at the Tower Hill Memorial London Panel 120 . Sadly his son Edward J Howard Mess Boy in the S.S. Creekirk was k.i.a. 19/10/1940 aged 17 he is remembered at the Tower Hill Memorial London Panel 33 .
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