No.P/JX 252140, Ordinary Seaman, William Alfred Robert MEAD
Aged 20
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William Alfred Robert Mead was born in Great Welnetham on 22nd November 1922 (4th qtr 1922 Bury St. Edmunds 4a: 1476), son of Algye Robert and Happy MEAD (née GARNHAM)
His father's brother Archibald married his mother's sister Sarah, his father's middle name giving the identification. In the 1939 register, his widower father (mother died in 1922), a farm labourer, was at 4 Council Houses, Stanningfield Road, Great Welnetham (2 closed records) |
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Built in 1918 as USS Satterlee, the Belmont was one of the Lease Lend destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940. She was escort to 11 Atlantic convoys
as part of the Newfoundland Escort Force before escorting a return troop convoy NA2, when she was hit by torpedo from U82 (Oberleutnant zur See Siegfried Rollmann)
off Halifax with the loss of her entire crew of 138 in position 42.02N 57-18W.
and on the Stanningfield Memorial click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
