Date of death:

1984

Service number:

C/KX.84293

Nationality:

British

Joined the Royal Navy in 1932 at the age of 16. Served in WWII as chief stoker-petty officer on destroyers and frigates on Atlantic Convoy duty and other duties. He was torpedoed twice and survived the collision of his ship with a Swedish ship when his quarters were totally demolished, but he happened to be on duty at the time. He left the navy in 1954 after a couple of years shore duty teaching in Chatham Dockyard training school. He died in 1984 as a result of mesothelioma of the pleura, caused by asbestos exposure in the engine rooms of the ships on which he served.

He served on the folowing ships:

Pembroke (Chatham barracks)
Versatile (V Class Destroyer)
Escort (E Class destroyer: first crew)
Arethusa (Arethusa Class Cruiser)
Vindictive (Effingham Class Cruiser: completed as a aircraft carrier, but converted to a cruiser in 1923-25)
Whitely (W Class destroyer)
Jervis (J Class Destroyer)
Euryalus (Dido Class cruiser)
Croome (Hunt Class escort destroyer)
Bonaventure (Depot and Repair Ship, servicing midget submarines)
Perseus (Colossus Class light-fleet aircraft carrier: completed as maintenance and transport ship)
Artifex (Depot and Repair Ship)
Crossbow (Weapon Class Destroyer)
Birmingham (Southampton Class Cruiser)
Victory IV (Portsmouth barracks)

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