Military service
Burial/memorial information
In the First World War he served with the Royal Marine Light Infantry at Plymouth, England, regimental number 19559, then with the 12th East Sussex Regiment, regimental number 26790 and the Royal Sussex Regiment, regimental number L-13598.
On June 28, 1941, the Queen Victoria, sailing unescorted, was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-10 off Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Of the 48 crew members, only one survived and was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese.
British War Medal, Victory Medal.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 105 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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