Able Seaman. P/JX 174137. Joined RN 19 December 1939. Joined LO3 March/April 1940. In 6 mess and stationed on X and Y guns (At BISMARCK and Narvik action) (Survivor discharged to HMS Victory) Left the RN 6 January 1946 to become a builder. Died 31 January 2013 at Bridport Dorset aged 93. His wife Vera passed away nine months previously.