Able Seaman P/JX 349484 Thomas Stanley HULME.
Royal Navy H.M.S. Egret (L75).
27 Aug 1943 aged 20.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 75, Column 1.
Son of Frank and Mary Hulme, of Stockport, Cheshire.
H.M.S. Egret (Acting Commander John Valentine Waterhouse, DSO) was the first Allied warship to be sunk by a guided missile. About 30 nautical miles west of Vigo, Spain H.M.S. Egret was attacked by a squadron of Dornier Do 217 aircraft, one of which carried and launched the Henschel Hs-293A guided bomb which hit and sank Egret, killing 194 of its crew, and 4 R.A.F. Electronics experts.
H.M.S. Egret (photo from uboat.net)
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