Date of death:

May 11th, 1940 (Vlaardingen, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Vlaardingen
Plot: M. Grave: Coll. 716.

Service number:

C/JX 171648

Nationality:

British

Commander Hill, Ordinary Seamen Higgs and Goshawk were killed when Loodsboot 19 hit a magnetic mine at the Nieuwe Waterweg between Vlaardingen en Maassluis in the morning of 10 May 1940. Aboard was a small part of the Dutch gold reserve, which had to be kept out of German hands.

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