O'DONNELL T.

Able Seaman D/JX 345120 Thomas O'DONNELL.

Royal Navy H.M.S. Isis (D87).

20 Jul 1944 aged 21.

Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 87, Column 1.

Thomas was the eldest of three children, of Thomas O'Donnell and Bertha Redfern who married at St.Paul's Portwood.

H.M.S. Isis (Lieutenant Commander Henry Dumaresq Durell) was mined and sunk off Normandy, France on 20 Jul 1944. The wreck is in 20 meters of water about 5 miles North-East of Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy.

155 of ship's company ware killed, with survivors spending several hours in the water. 21 of the survivors were rescued by H.M.S. Hound but one later died, others were rescued by a U.S.N. Rescue Cutter, in total 45 of the crew survived.

H.M.S. Isis (photo from Pinterest)

SAXON W. H.

Lieutenant (A) William Harold SAXON.

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve H.M.S.Vulture, 736 Sqn.

16 Jul 1945 aged 24.

Lee-on-solent Memorial, Bay 6, Panel 3.

William Taylor Saxon and Selina May Barrett were married at St.Mary in Heaton Moor, William being their only son.

He died when the Avenger he was Observer in crashed into the sea, whilst flying out of H.M.S. Vulture (R.N.A.S. St.Merryn) on a training flight. The pilot was also killed.

Grumman Avenger (photo from Britmodeller.com)

BROWN W. J.

Stoker 1st Class P/KX 139417 William Joseph BROWN

Royal Navy H.M.S.Victory III.

10 Jul 1943 aged 21

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 78, Column 1.

Son of Joseph and Annie May Brown, of Edgeley, Stockport, Cheshire.

Missing presumed killed during Operation Husky the allied invasion of Sicily.

WEBSTER K. D.

Able Seaman P/SSX 33180 Kenneth Derek WEBSTER.

Royal Navy H.M.S.Malvernian (F102).

1 Jul 1941 aged 22.

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 49, Column 3.

H.M.S. Malvernian (Commander John William Baillie Robertson) was an Ocean Boarding Vessel escorting convoy OG-66 sailing Liverpool to Gibraltar. She was bombed by a Focke-Wulf Condor and heavily damaged on 1 Jul 1941.

On the 11 Jul 1941 she was bombed again by German aircraft and the ship was abandoned. She was spotted drifting on 19 Jul 1941 and was then finally sunk.

H.M.S. Malvernian (photo from Pinterest)

Focke-Wulf Condor ( photo from Military Factory)