Military service
Burial/memorial information
On 15 February 1915, he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Reserve and on 16 February 1917, Lieutenant. He served on board HMS Odin, a sloop of the Espiègle class that patrolled the East Indies, the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia from 1914 to 1920 during the First World War.
A member of convoy SC-20, this ship was torpedoed at 13:53 on 6 February 1941 by U-107 and sank 120 miles (193 km) west of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°39'N/15°56'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 158 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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