No.C/JX 353892, Able Seaman, Frederick ELEY
Aged 20
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Born in 1924 (3rd qtr Bury St.Edmunds 4a:1538) son of George Richard and Annie Maria ELEY(née BULL) In the 1939 register his widowed mother was at 69 Cannon Street, Bury St.Edmunds
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H.M.S. Isis, an I class destroyer, was launched on 12 November 1936 and commissioned on 2 June 1937. Isis took part in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941.
On 19 February 1943 she and the escort destroyer HMS Hursley and a Vickers Wellington medium bomber attacked and sank the German submarine U-562 in the
Mediterranean Sea north-east of Benghazi. Isis was hit in 1941 off Beirut, Lebanon after the Battle of Crete. She pursued two Vichy French destroyers which escaped. A Junkers Ju 88 aircraft then attacked and severely damaged her. Hero tried to tow her to Haifa, Palestine. The tow rope snapped, but the engines were started and she successfully reached Haifa. Isis struck a mine and sank on 20 July 1944 off the western sector of the Normandy landing beaches. Eleven officers and 143 ratings were lost.
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