No.C/JX 300757, Able Seaman, Dennis L SHAW
Aged 20
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Born on 4th April 1922 ( 2nd qtr 1922 Bury St.Edmunds 4a:1648), son of William and Hannah SHAW (née BULL) of Railway Cottages, Eastgate Street, Bury St.Edmunds
in the 1939 register his widower father, a weighbridge clerk, was at 1 Railway Cottages, Eastgate Street with Dennis' sister Evelyn. His mother had died in 1936. |
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HMS Achates was an "A" class destroyer, commissioned in 1930. before war started she was in the Meditrranean but returned to home waters in1938. She took part in the battle of the Denmark Strait, when
HMS Hood was sunk. on screening duties when Bismark was sunk. Damaged by a British mine off Iceland July 1941. Repairs and conversion carried out and she went to the Mediterranean in support of the Torch landings in Tunisia Returning to the Home Fleet she was on escort duties to convoy JW51B to Russia. Providing a smoke screen when the convoy was attacked by Hipper, she was hit by 11 inch shellfire which caused major damage and many casualties. HM Trawler Northern Gem attempted a tow but Achates rolled over and sunk 73.03N 03.42E. There were only 91 survivors of her crew.
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