HARDY, David George


No.LT/KX 136479, Stoker, David George HARDY
Aged 32


H.M.Trawler "Ellesmere", Royal Naval Patrol Service
Killed in Action on Saturday, 24th February 1945


David George HARDY was born in Whepstead on 23rd August 1922 (4th qtr 1922 Bury St Edmunds 4a:1474 , son of Roderick and Mary Elizabeth HARDY (née GRIMWOOD).

In the 1939 register he was a farm labourer living at Broadgate Farm , Chedburgh Road, Whepstead with his father Roderick Hardy [24-3-1888] a gardener's labourer; his mother Mary E [3-10-1892]; brothers Joseph A [11-8-1916], Frederick J [6-2-1920], Stanley C [19-1-1924]; sister Winifred M [2-4-1921]. All the brothers were farm labourers, there is one closed record.




H.M. Trawler "Ellesmere" was a 580 ton whaler completed in Middlesborough in 1939 for a Norwegian firm, then purchased by the Admiralty in October 1939
On 24th February 1945 she was part of the escort for 21 landing craft en route to Malta when she suddenly disappeared in a great explosion. No survivors were found




David is commemorated on the Lowestoft Naval Memorial panel 17 column 2

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